Senior Node.JS Developer

About HighLevel:  

HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have 1000+ employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.

Our Website - https://www.gohighlevel.com/

YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFiV4qDX5ipE-DQcsm1j4g

Blog Post - https://blog.gohighlevel.com/general-atlantic-joins-highlevel/

Our Customers:

HighLevel serves a diverse customer base, including over 60K agencies & entrepreneurs and 500K businesses globally. Our customers range from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises, spanning various industries and sectors.

Scale at HighLevel:

We work at scale; our infrastructure handles around 3 Billion+ API hits & 2 Billion+ message events monthly and over 25M views of customer pages daily. We also handle over 80 Terabytes of data across 5 Databases.

About the Team:

The Expansion Products team is responsible for driving volumetric & usage based upgrades and upsells within the platform to maximize revenue potential (apart from the subscription revenue). We do this by building innovative products & features that solve real-world problems for agencies and allow them to consolidate their offering to their clients in a single platform packaged under their white-labled brand. The expansion products team focuses exclusively on products that can demonstrate adoption, drive up engagement in target segments and are easily monetizable. This team handles multiple product areas including Phone System, email system, online listing integration, WordPress Hosting, Memberships & Courses, Mobile Apps, etc.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a skilled Senior Software Engineer for Membership Platform and help us take our platform’s infrastructure to the next level. In this role, you'll focus on keeping our databases fast and reliable, improving and managing the infrastructure, and reducing technical debt so we can scale smoothly as we grow. You’ll play a key part in ensuring our platform is stable, secure, and easy for our product teams to work with. This is an exciting opportunity to work on large-scale systems and make a direct impact on the experience of millions of users.

Responsibilities:

• Optimize and manage scalable databases to ensure high performance and reliability.
• Automate and maintain infrastructure using IaC tools, CI/CD pipelines, and best security practices.
• Identify, prioritize, and address technical debt to improve performance and maintainability.
• Implement monitoring and observability solutions to support high availability and incident response.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and document processes, mentoring engineers and sharing knowledge.
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Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years in platform engineering, with expertise in large-scale databases and infrastructure.
• Experience in Full stack engineering with Node.js and modern Javascript frameworks like Vue.js[preferred], React.js, Angular.
• Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Proficient in building scalable applications and should be comfortable understanding the flow of the software
• Experience with relational/non-relational databases ex: MySQL / MongoDB / Firestore
• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes a plus) and video streaming knowledge is a plus.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Developer with extensive experience in the MERN stack, React.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL and MySQL to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of backend development and a proven track record of building robust, scalable applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain server-side components using Node.js and Express.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints.
• Integrate with PostgreSQL/ MySQL databases, ensuring optimal performance and data integrity.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Ensure the responsiveness and scalability of applications.
• Troubleshoot and debug applications to optimize performance.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in backend development.
• Proficiency in the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js).
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL/ MySQL database management and optimization.
• In-depth knowledge of RESTful and GraphQL API design and development.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Previous experience in a leadership or mentoring role.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Comprehensive health insurance.
• Flexible working hours.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.

We are on a mission to enable businesses to build agile and accountable technology teams that can deliver results in a secure and scalable way. You will be working in one such technology team for our clients across the world.

• Collaborate with front-end and back-end developers and designers to build website following client requirements

• Create clear, simple, and reusable code

• Develop all server-side logic, including data storage to optimize website performance

• Identify programming bottlenecks and bugs and find fixes

• Test, update and validate web applications to be used on different web browsers

• Execute automated testing platforms and system tests

• BSc/BE/BTech in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

• At least 2+ years of experience with JavaScript and Node.js

• Hands-on expertise in REST, MySQL/PostgreSQL, WebSocket, MongoDB, Redis, etc.

• Familiarity with Docker and AWS infrastructure

• Understanding of data security principles

• Proficiency in JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks

• Strong analytical and problem-solving aptitude skills

Introduction

Ever wondered what it would be like to be a part of the core team of Airbnb or Netflix when they were just starting out? Here’s your chance to try that path with Ohana!

We are looking for a founding engineer to join our team.

Who we are

Ohana is an E-learning platform for holistic learning. We are an angel-funded early stage startup backed by some of the marquee angel investors from India and Singapore. Our investors include Vivek HR (co-founder and CEO, Bounce), Tanushree Gupta (co-founder and CEO, Doubtnut), Jagmal Singh (CTO, Janio Asia) to name a few!

Check us out at https://ohana.academy!

Our Product

“Creativity is as important as literacy” - Sir Ken Robinson

With this belief, Ohana is building the world's largest holistic learning academy. Our product offering:

The Classroom: Offering live online classes on arts, crafts, linguistics, yoga, dance and many more subjects
The Playground: Enabling social learning - a community for kids to find peers with similar interests

Our mission

India has 250Mn kids in the K12 segment. However, except the top 0.1%, most parents can’t find high-quality and affordable holistic learning for their kids. Fortunately, 140Mn kids are now connected to the digital world with 4G access. We want to leverage this new connectivity and bridge the gap in children's overall development with Ohana.

Where are we in our journey

Team: We are a team of two co-founders (Saurabh and Suyash), both IIT Delhi alums with over a decade of experience each in leading consumer businesses. We have a total of 15 people team including 4 engineers (currently outsourced)

Customers: Over the last couple of months, we have grown to 5,000+ registered users and aim to reach 10K+ paid users and 1 Mn+ community strength in the next 12 months.

Young, inspired, and focused - We are ready for take-off!

Our Culture

• “Mission-driven” is not a buzzword for us. We care deeply about the impact we want to create on kid’s lives and we want to exemplify the value of “no child left behind”
• Be inclusive - We are creating a product that is accessible and affordable. We want to solve this not just for Bangalore and Mumbai, but for Indore, Jabalpur, Raipur as well
• Not just customer obsessed - we also care about their well-being. We are willing to compromise profits - but will not resort to unethical sales tactics or compromise on product quality
• Our team cares about a strong culture and respects our code of conduct

Why work for us

• We have global ambitions - Holistic education is a $75Bn global market, with India alone contributing more than $10Bn. Apart from salary compensation, you get a piece of the pie (equity) of a potentially billion-dollar organization
• You will have exposure to building large, scalable systems and will be mentored by people who have done the same for millions of users
• You will have exposure to starting up / entrepreneurship (ever feel like you want to build a startup?) owning end to end consumer tech product which impacts the life of thousands of students/parents on daily level

Job Location

We are based out of Bengaluru and work from an office. We encourage working from office, but are completely ok if you would like to work remotely until things return to normal.

Expectations from the role

• You will work closely with the founding team and a small team of engineers, currently outsourced, in a fast-paced environment.
• You will work as a tech lead and will be responsible for architecting the new features as well as improving the existing codebase. You will be expected to have a high degree of ownership and responsibility for deliverables.
• You will wear a product hat as and when required and help in shaping the product.
• You will provide technical mentorship to other engineers in the team and will lead a team of junior engineers.
• You should be able to deal with ambiguity, have strong bias towards action, ability to deep dive whenever required and quickly deliver to unblock the team

Preferred experience and competencies

• You are a software engineer with 4+ years of industry experience.
• Professional experience with at least one web dev framework (ReactJS or Django/Python)
• Professional experience with one or more (SQL or NoSQL) databases.
• A stint in a product company or a startup or any similar faced paced environment is preferable.
• Experience working with cloud infra providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) is preferable.
• Strong proficiency in REST API

• NoSQL DB (MongoDB, CouchDB), PostgreSQL
• Mocha test environment
• Should JS testing framework
• Experience implementing mock services
• Nock API mocking
• NPM, Redis
• Typescript / Coffee script experience will be an added advantage
• Experience working with opensource JS projects
• Experience in developing REST API
• Source code management tool - Git / GitHub
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking and client/server web programming model
• Good communication skills
• Should be able to work with the cross-geo client team