Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Technical Expertise

• Proficiency in Node.js or Python – Hands-on experience with backend development frameworks

and best practices.

• Expertise in SQL/NoSQL Databases – Strong experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or

DynamoDB.

• ElasticSearch & API Development – Strong knowledge of REST APIs, ElasticSearch, and high-

availability system design.

• Cloud & DevOps – Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Data Structures & Algorithms – Strong command over data structures, algorithms, OOD, and

design patterns.

• Version Control & Deployment – Experience with Git, GitHub Actions, and other deployment

systems.

• High-Performance Systems – Implemented solutions that handle high availability, concurrency,

and low-latency requirements.

At BigThinkCode, our technology solves complex problems. We are looking for talented back-end (node.JS) engineer to join our at Chennai.

Please find below our job description, if interested apply / reply sharing your profile to connect and discuss.

Company: BigThinkCode Technologies

URL: https://www.bigthinkcode.com/

Experience required: 3-4 years

Work location: Chennai

Joining time: Immediate – 4 weeks

Work Mode: Work from office / Hybrid

Must have skills:

·      Hands on expertise in OOJS, node.js, distributed systems.

·      Event drive architecture (EDA) microservices project experience MUST

·      Any programming: Typescript or nodeJS or Golang

·      Hands on experience using docket containers and Kubernetes.

·      Aware about Asynchronous and Loose Coupling.

·      Familiar with API’s gateway and microservice design patterns.

A skilled Node.js Developer with 5+ years of experience in building scalable applications using event-driven architecture within distributed systems. The ideal candidate should be comfortable in high-performance backend services and have a strong understanding of asynchronous programming patterns.

Experience or exposure to knowledge embedding and vectorization techniques is a strong plus, especially in the context of modern data-driven or AI-powered systems.

Required Skills

·      5+ years of hands-on experience with Node.js

·      Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and non-blocking I/O

·      Experience working with distributed systems and microservices architecture

·      Proficiency in RESTful API design and implementation

·      Experience with databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL

·      Experience with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes

Key Responsibilities

·      Design, develop, and maintain server-side applications using Node.js

·      Build and optimize scalable, event-driven systems in distributed environments

·      Implement asynchronous workflows, message queues, and pub/sub architectures

·      Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver backend solutions

Good to Have 

·      Experience with knowledge embedding and vectorization techniques

·      Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS)

·      Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Why Join Us:

·      Collaborative work environment.

·      Exposure to modern tools and scalable application architectures.

·      Medical cover for employee and eligible dependents.

·      Tax beneficial salary structure.

·      Comprehensive leave policy

·      Competency development training programs.

Backend Developers

• Contract To Hire (Initial Engagement: 6 months)

Experience: 5+ years

Mandatory Skills:

● Node.js

● Python

● MongoDB

● PostgreSQL

● REST API design and development

● Backend architecture and service design

● Database design, indexing and query optimisation

● Performance tuning

● Authentication/authorisation

● Third-party integrations

● Asynchronous processing and background jobs

● Logging, monitoring and debugging

● Git and collaborative development

● Scalable, maintainable and testable backend services

● Architecture discussions, code reviews, debugging and production support

Good to have:

● Microservices

● Docker

● Cloud platforms

● Redis

● Message queues

● CI/CD

● Observability

Key Responsibilities • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Node.js, TypeScript, and Express.js. • Build and maintain microservices-based applications and APIs. • Work with MongoDB and at least one SQL database. • Implement Redis caching to improve application performance and scalability. • Work with AWS cloud services and support cloud-based application deployment. • Apply good understanding of network and infrastructure concepts while developing and troubleshooting applications. • Build and maintain CIICD pipelines for automated build, testing, and deployment. • use Git effectively for source control and collaborative development. • Containerize and deploy applications using Docker. • Write and maintain unit test cases using appropriate testing tools/frameworks. • Troubleshoot performance, scalability, and production issues and implement effective solutions. • Take end-to-end ownership of assigned modules and deliverables. • Work independently with minimal supervision and proactively resolve technical challenges.

Must-Have Skills • Node.js • TypeScript • Express.js • MongoDB • SQL — any one SQL database • Redis/ Redis Caching • AWSCloud • Network & Infrastructure fundamentals • Microservices Architecture • Docker • CI/CD Git • unit Testing / Test Automation • Abilityto work independently and take ownership Good to Have • Microsoft Azure knowledge • Experience working With Code Bots / Al-assisted development tools Lead N s Developer Pune • Domain experience in FinTech, Travel, ERP, or IoT Experience &

Other Requirements • 5—7 years Of relevant software development experience. • Strong hands-on experience in backend development using Node.js and TypeScript. • Good understanding Of scalable and distributed system design. • Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills. • Ability to independently manage tasks and deliver production-ready solutions. • Immediate joiners or candidates With a short notice period are preferred

Job Role: Software Engineer – Backend & Cloud Infrastructure

Company: Appmaker by StarApps

Location: Kochi, Kerala (On-Site)

Experience: 3–6 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

About Appmaker by StarApps

At StarApps, we build high-scale tools like Appmaker(https://appmaker.xyz/) that empower thousands of global e-commerce merchants to turn their web stores into native mobile apps. We focus on low latency, cutting-edge serverless architectures, and building scalable software that handles millions of requests every day.

About the Role

We are looking for a Mid-Senior Backend & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our core team on-site in Kochi. In this role, you will design, scale, and maintain high-throughput backend services and cloud infrastructure capable of supporting large user bases and handling millions of daily requests.

If you thrive in solving complex distributed system design challenges, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and taking ownership of core platform scaling, this role is for you!

Key Responsibilities

• Distributed Backend Systems: Architect, construct, and optimize core backend microservices and serverless applications built on Node.js and TypeScript.
• Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps: Manage, automate, and expand infrastructure across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) using IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• System Scalability & Performance: Design for high availability, implementing caching, load balancing, message queues, and database optimizations.
• Reliability & Observability: Troubleshoot complex production incidents, optimize system latency, enforce security standards, and maintain CI/CD and automated monitoring pipelines.
• Architecture Ownership: Own critical features and system components independently while collaborating on high-level architecture decisions.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: 3–6 years of hands-on software development experience with a focus on backend software architecture, systems engineering, and infrastructure.
• Tech Stack: Strong mastery of Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Cloud & DevOps: Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and major Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Edge & Serverless: Deep understanding of serverless deployment models (Cloudflare Workers/D1, AWS Lambda, or equivalent).
• System Design & Databases: Advanced knowledge of system design, load balancing, caching strategies, asynchronous message queues, relational database optimization, and high-availability architecture.
• Engineering Standards: Strong experience with production CI/CD, observability tools, automated testing, and production troubleshooting.

Bonus Points

• Hands-on experience with the extended Cloudflare suite (KV, R2, Queues, Workers).
• Prior experience in SaaS product engineering, Shopify app ecosystems, or high-traffic global e-commerce platforms.
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Why Join Us?

• High Scale & Impact: Build software used by thousands of global brands and millions of end consumers.
• Modern Tech Stack: Work with cutting-edge serverless architectures and infrastructure automation platforms.
• Growth & Culture: Great engineering culture, high ownership, competitive growth, and direct technical leadership opportunities in our Kochi office.

About the Job -

We have always been in the spotlight for being adeptin “the next big technologies”. What we can offer you is a space to explore varied technologies and quench your techie soul. We are looking for Developer skilled in technologieslike Node.js and AWS who also holds experience with user-interface design.

Responsibilities: ● The full stack developer will be responsible for design and development of scalable and flexible web applications and creating API to connect to databases and applications from back-end to client-side code, using optimal and efficient technologies, frameworks, and patterns.

● Take responsibility for design, implementation and maintain existing development ecosystem, including bugs – fixing, design and develop new custom components to meet project requirements.

● Working with other developers and software engineers to develop front-end and back-end architecture that's well-structured and flexible, along with the APIs to support it.

● Install and configure server environments for React deployments maintain and update project dependencies as well as fix any conflicts.

● Responsible for regular communication with developer team involved in the development process and testing of new features in the application

● Analyzing requirements and designing new functionality for new projects with cutting edge technology with research on optimization and new features for the existing product by ensuring a required level of performance.

● Candidate must be abreast with latest technologies and trends, relevant standards should be able to work effectively in a multidisciplinary, multinational team environment focused on innovation with comfortable working on a range of problems.

Desired Competencies(Technical/Behavioral Competency) – Must Have-

● Nodejs, MongoDB, Socket.IO and Redis.

● Proficient in Node.js and MongoDB and working knowledge of JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, frameworks (Angular.js, React.js)

● Experience with Unix/Linux or Windows and/or Mac environments, distributed systems

● Excellent practical knowledge of OOP concepts and SOLID principles ● Microservices and agile development

● Hands-on experience with cloud (AWS) development/hosting.

● Experience with Web services development (SOAP, REST)

● Strong in Object Oriented Programming, MVC, Design patterns and SOLID principles. 

Skills Required: 

• Node.js
• MongoDB
• Angular
•  API optimization  
• Micro Services
• Multi threading
• Socket.io

Strong Backend Node.js Developer Profile

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 7+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience using Node.js building production-grade systems for B2C products at meaningful consumer scale

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must be AI-native in their own engineering workflow: already uses LLMs and agentic tooling across the SDLC, from design and code generation through testing and debugging

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have owned backend architecture end to end, including greenfield builds. Should be able to make early architecture calls and reason clearly about service boundaries, data flow, caching, queueing, failure modes, scalability, and reliability trade-offs under real constraints.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have a solid understanding of backend fundamentals, including API development, service-oriented architecture, data structures, algorithms, and clean coding practices

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs and backend services, including integrations with external systems and third-party platforms

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have strong experience working with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), including efficient data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning

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Mandatory (Company) – Must have worked in B2C product companies / startups at meaningful consumer scale. (WealthTech, FinTech, or high-growth consumer product background is highly preferred)

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Mandatory (Stability) – Must have a stable career history, with consistent tenure across previous companies; frequent job-hopping will not be considered

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Mandatory (AI Product) – Must have experience building and shipping products that use LLMs and agentic workflows to end users.

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Mandatory (College) – ) - B.Tech or Dual degree (Btech and Mtech or Integrated Msc/MS) from Tier 1 Engineering Institutes (IITs, not NITs). Candidates from other institutions will not be considered unless they come from top top-tier product companies

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Mandatory (Compensation Alignment) – Candidate must be comfortable with the compensation structure where the company matches their current CTC and provides ESOPs, without any salary hike

Role Description

Software Engineer is a full-time role based in Hyderabad with Onsite work arrangement. This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining back-end services and APIs, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security across platforms. The engineer will participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making, collaborating closely with product owners, QA, and cross-functional teams. Daily responsibilities include writing clean, maintainable code, troubleshooting complex issues, improving system performance, and contributing to best practices, documentation, and engineering standards. The role also includes mentoring less experienced engineers and supporting continuous improvement in development processes and tooling.

Key Requirements/Skills

4-7 years of overall experience in software development with strong expertise in building scalable web & mobile applications.

• Strong technical decision-making ability, including architecture design, technology selection and implementation of best practices.
• Front-end expertise: Strong experience in React, JavaScript, TypeScript, NextJS and building responsive and user-friendly UI/UX.
• Back-end development: Hands-on experience with Node.js, Express JS, Nest JS, RESTful APIs, API design, and server-side architecture.
• Databases : Good Hands on Exprience in both SQL(PostgreSQL Preferred) & No SQL Databases
• Gen AI Expertise: Experience in building RAG & LLM Systems, implementing AI/ML models and integrating AI-based solutions to solve business problems. Expereince with Langchain, langgraph and Vector DBs, Voice AI(STT, TTS) Models and experience in using Open AI Tools (Calude, Cursor, etc.)
• Cloud & DevOps exposure: Experience with AWS/Azure, understanding of CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based deployments.
• Code quality & best practices: Experience in code reviews, Git version control, and ensuring maintainable and secure code.
• Team leadership: Ability to mentor developers, guide technical discussions, and collaborate across teams.
• Strong communication skills to effectively interact with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in high-compliance environments such as healthcare systems is a plus.
• Certifications in AWS & Other skills and technologies will be an added advantage.

Educational Qualification

• B.Tech / M.Tech in CSE/IT/AI&ML only from a recognized university/college. 

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 3+ years of experience in Full Stack Development with hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade web applications.

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Mandatory (Skills 1) – Must have strong hands-on experience in Python or Node.js for backend development.

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Mandatory (Skills 2) – Must have experience developing REST APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, Express.js or similar.

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Mandatory (Skills 3) – Must have hands-on experience with at least one modern frontend framework such as React.js or Angular, along with JavaScript/TypeScript.

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Mandatory (Skills 4) – Must have hands-on experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or similar.

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Mandatory (Skills 5) – Must have experience integrating frontend applications with backend APIs and third-party services.

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Mandatory (Skills 6) – Must have good understanding of OOP, data structures, software engineering practices and clean/testable code.

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Mandatory (Skills 7) – Must have experience with Git/GitHub and standard development practices including code reviews and version control.

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Mandatory (Skills 8) – Must have experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS and exposure to application deployment.

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Mandatory (Skills 9) – Must have hands-on experience with Docker/containerized applications and understanding of scalable application development.

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Preferred (Experience 1) – Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployments.

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Preferred (Experience 2) – Experience with Redis/caching, asynchronous programming, microservices or distributed systems.

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Preferred (Experience 3) – Exposure to AI/ML, Generative AI, LLM applications or RAG-based applications.

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Mandatory (Age) - Candidate's Age should be below 28

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Mandatory ( Location ) - Candidates Only From Pune & Mumbai.

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Mandatory (Education) - Must be a B.E / B.Tech from Tier 1 Colleges (IIT, NIT, IIIT, BITS, DTU, NSUT)

* Design, develop, and maintain responsive websites and web applications.

* Build reusable frontend components using React.js.

* Develop scalable backend APIs and services using Node.js.

* Integrate third-party services and payment gateways such as Stripe.

* Build RESTful APIs and integrate with modern databases.

* Optimize applications for maximum speed, scalability, and SEO.

* Collaborate with designers to translate Figma/UI designs into pixel-perfect interfaces.

* Implement authentication, authorization, and security best practices.

* Debug production issues and improve application performance.

* Participate in code reviews and mentor junior developers.

* Work within Agile/Scrum development processes.