Software Development Engineer III - Node.JS

Job Title : Lead Java Developer (Backend)

Experience Required : 8 to 15 Years

Open Positions : 5

Location : Any major metro city (Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad)

Work Mode : Open to Remote / Hybrid / Onsite

Notice Period : Immediate Joiner/30 Days or Less

About the Role :

• We are looking for experienced Lead Java Developers who bring not only strong backend development skills but also a product-oriented mindset and leadership capability.
• This is an opportunity to be part of high-impact digital transformation initiatives that go beyond writing code—you’ll help shape future-ready platforms and drive meaningful change.
• This role is embedded within a forward-thinking digital engineering team that thrives on co-innovation, lean delivery, and end-to-end ownership of platforms and products.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and implement scalable backend systems using Java and Spring Boot.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to build intuitive and reliable digital products.
• Advocate and implement engineering best practices : SOLID principles, OOP, clean code, CI/CD, TDD/BDD.
• Lead Agile-based development cycles with a focus on speed, quality, and customer outcomes.
• Guide and mentor team members, fostering technical excellence and ownership.
• Utilize cloud platforms and DevOps tools to ensure performance and reliability of applications.

What We’re Looking For :

• Proven experience in Java backend development (Spring Boot, Microservices).
• 8+ Years of hands-on engineering experience with at least 2+ years in a Lead role.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Good understanding of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to DevOps and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to design solutions from first principles.
• Prior experience in product-based or startup environments is a big plus.

Ideal Candidate Profile :

• A tech enthusiast with a passion for clean code and scalable architecture.
• Someone who thrives in collaborative, transparent, and feedback-driven environments.
• A leader who takes ownership beyond individual deliverables to drive overall team and project success.

Interview Process

1. Initial Technical Screening (via platform partner)
2. Technical Interview with Engineering Team
3. Client-facing Final Round

Additional Info :

• Targeting profiles from product/startup backgrounds.
• Strong preference for candidates with under 1 month of notice period.
• Interviews will be fast-tracked for qualified profiles.

Role: Senior Full Stack Lead (Backend Focus)

Experience: 10+ Years

Location: Hyderabad (On-site)

We have an urgent requirement for a Senior Full Stack Lead with strong backend expertise and solid solutioning experience and development experience

The ideal candidate should be technically strong, capable of designing scalable solutions, and experienced in leading development across web and mobile platforms.

Key Expectations:

• Strong solutioning and development experience
• Backend-focused full stack profile
• Experience in Healthcare / Insurance domain (good to have)
• Hands-on experience building mobile applications (important) and web applications throughout career
• Experience with applications deployed to App Store / Play Store

Mandatory Skills:

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Microservices Architecture
• React (Client is using)

Nice to Have:

• Cloud exposure (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• CI/CD and DevOps practices

BACKEND DEVELOPER JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Backend Developer - Node.js & MongoDB

Location: Hyderabad

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Required: 3–5 Years

About Us

Inncircles – THE INNGINEERING COMPANY

We are a forward-thinking construction-tech innovator building CRM solutions that manage crores of records with precision and speed. Our mission is to revolutionize the construction domain through scalable engineering and robust backend systems. Join us to solve complex challenges and shape the future of data-driven construction tech!

Job Description

We are hiring a Backend Developer with 3–5 years of hands-on experience in Node.js and MongoDB to design, optimize, and maintain high-performance backend systems. You will work on large-scale data processing, external integrations, and scalable architectures while ensuring best coding practices and efficient database design.

Key Responsibilities

Backend Development & Optimization

1. Develop and maintain RESTful/GraphQL APIs using Node.js, adhering to best coding practices and reusable code structures.
2. Write optimized MongoDB queries for collections with crores of records, ensuring efficient data retrieval and storage.
3. Design MongoDB collections, implement indexing strategies, and optimize replica sets for performance and reliability.
4. Scalability & Performance
5. Implement horizontal and vertical scaling strategies to handle growing data and traffic.
6. Optimize database performance through indexing, aggregation pipelines, and query tuning.
7. External Integrations & Debugging
8. Integrate third-party APIs (payment gateways, analytics tools, etc.) and SDKs seamlessly into backend systems.
9. Debug and resolve complex issues in production environments with a systematic, data-driven approach.

AWS & Cloud Services

Work with AWS services like Lambda (serverless), SQS (message queuing), S3 (storage), and EC2 (compute) to build resilient and scalable solutions.

Collaboration & Best Practices

Collaborate with frontend teams to ensure smooth API integrations and data flow.

Document code, write unit/integration tests, and enforce coding standards.

Mandatory Requirements

3–5 years of professional experience in Node.js and MongoDB.

Expertise in:

1. MongoDB: Collection design, indexing, aggregation pipelines, replica sets, and sharding.
2. Node.js: Asynchronous programming, middleware, and API development (Express.js/Fastify).
3. Query Optimization: Writing efficient queries for large datasets (crores of records).
4. Strong debugging skills and experience in resolving production issues.
5. Hands-on experience with external integrations (APIs, SDKs, webhooks).
6. Knowledge of horizontal/vertical scaling techniques and performance tuning.
7. Familiarity with AWS services (Lambda, SQS, S3, EC2).

Preferred Skills

1. Experience with microservices architecture.
2. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins).
3. Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, or serverless frameworks.
4. Exposure to monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or New Relic.

Why Join Inncircles?

Solve large-scale data challenges in the construction domain.

Work on cutting-edge cloud-native backend systems.

Competitive salary, flexible work culture, and growth opportunities.

Apply Now:

If you’re passionate about building scalable backend systems and thrive in a data-heavy environment, share your resume and a GitHub/portfolio link showcasing projects with Node.js, MongoDB, and AWS integrations.

Inncircles – THE INNGINEERING COMPANY

📍 Hyderabad | 🚀 Building Tomorrow’s Tech Today

What you will be doing

● Building and maintaining micro services.

● Develop new features and improve existing features of the application.

● Coding, Implementing, Unit Testing and Documenting Typescript and Javascript based services.

● Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.

● Code reviews and ensuring adherence to software development standards.

● Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure.

● Participating in requirements gathering and functional specification activities.

● Resolving and helping to mitigate production issues.

Senior Software Engineer, Java/Python (Bangalore, Remote option available)

4+ years of experience 

Zepto 

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 40-55 lakh per annum

Paid leave

Sick leave

Provident Fund

What Else?

• High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
• Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
• Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!

Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)

About the Employer

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!

Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee

investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

Funding:

Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.

Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.

Employer Reviews:

“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”

"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."

Reporting structure:

Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO

This role would be by and large a Individual Contributor role.

Interview Process:

• Round 1. Problem Solving + CS Fundamentals (60 mins)
  • DS/Algo Problems (30 mins) - You can expect 1-2 Leetcode easy/medium questions
  • CS Fundamentals (30 mins)
• Round 2. Low Level Design (60 mins)
  • You would be given a trivial problem and expected to work through the low level design viz class structure, interfaces, db data models etc.
• Round 3. High Level Design (60 mins)
  • You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
    • Extract APIs, if any
    • Database choices
    • Schema design and Scale the system, if time permits

What You will do Everyday?

• Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
• Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
• Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to system architecture and database design.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus.
• Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit

Your Superpowers

• 4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard/Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
• Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
• Experience building at least one application from scratch.
• Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed.
• Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
• A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.

Personality fit 

Looking to hire a Backend developer, who wakes up every day with the zeal of learning something new - a mind that is always curious. Not only this, he should be proud to have a good experience on algorithms and understand his technology at the atomic level.

Preliminary requirements for the role

1. Should understand the architecture of Node Js language, and must have had at least 1 year of solid experience in writing robust code in this language.
2. Should be well versed with basic algorithms on ( array, Linked list, stack, queue)- Yes, we do ask questions associated with time and space complexity for the above-mentioned algorithms
3. Thorough understanding of MySQL, in that, creating all types of joins ( inner, outer, left, and right) on multiple tables, views, and triggers are a piece of cake for you.
4. Further, you should have a decent understanding of database designs so that you can make quick decisions about normalization, inclusion/exclusion of foreign keys, etc
5. Should have a decent understanding of code repository tool such as GitHub
6. Should be well versed with the basics of AWS ( understanding of cloud architecture would be a plus)
7. Should be aware of the commonly used encryption techniques such as JWT, API encryption, Token management, etc
8. Exposure to working in E-commerce related applications as well as in a startup environment would be an add on.