Roles and Responsibilities:
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant APIs
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code to build features and improvements to the Plum product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in shipping backend applications in NodeJs, with knowledge of Express.
- Experience with NextJS and Typescript is a plus. Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable API infrastructure.
- Shows the drive for owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution. Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational Skills.
- Having experience maintaining a production grade open source project is a plus.

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Technical Product Manager (TPM)
Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Experience: 4–8 years
Team: Engineering / Product
About the Role
We’re looking for a Technical Product Manager to run execution across product, engineering, and customer-facing teams. You will own delivery, keep teams aligned, and ensure the right things ship at the right time — balancing product roadmap, customer issues, sales priorities, and platform reliability in a fast-moving startup environment.
What You’ll Do
- Own end-to-end delivery of engineering and product initiatives
- Build and maintain sprint plans, delivery timelines, and roadmaps
- Prioritize work across features, bugs, customer requests, sales needs, and infrastructure
- Work closely with engineers to translate requirements into clear execution plans
- Run Agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, reviews, retros)
- Track delivery, risks, and team capacity
- Communicate progress, blockers, and timelines to leadership and stakeholders
- Use data from tools like Mixpanel and monitoring systems to track delivery health
What We’re Looking For
- 4–8 years of experience with:
- 2+ years in technical project/program management
- 2+ years in software or engineering roles
- Strong understanding of Agile, SDLC, and modern product delivery
- Experience working with SaaS or product engineering teams
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments
- Strong communication, ownership, and prioritization skills
Why This Role Matters
You’ll sit at the center of product, engineering, sales, and support — ensuring the company ships fast without breaking things, and that the right priorities always win.
Job Profile:-
We’re in search of a Back-End Software Engineer that specializes in server-side components. In this role, you’ll primarily work on Node JS, Mongo DB, Redis, building scalable products and will bring a depth of knowledge on algorithms and data structures. As a Back-End Software Engineer, on any given day you might be architecting new features for our customers, refactoring existing code to be more scalable, and seeing changes through to completion in a live environment.
Key Attributes you need to possess: -
- Prioritization- Should have a strong work ethics and show up on time at sessions with excellent skills in predicting the amount of time needed to plan, coordinate, and perform on a task or managing their clients as and when required.
- Quick Learning Ability- You should be an amazing self-learner who has the ability to learn new technology on their own and are not threatened by new technologies. Someone who has an ability to pull various bits of information and to process information on the fly with good logical and analytical skills.
- Deep and Broad Technical Experience- Someone who is able to hit the ground because they already know the right technology.They should be able to meet coding principles and write code that is readable and commented-on where appropriate.Through incorporating their cognitive abilities and extensive industry experience, they are able to find optimal solutions easily.
- High-End User Focus-A good programmer does what they are asked to do, while a great programmer thinks of the end user of the software and works to solve problems within the organization’s
capabilities.Someone who knows the functionality they’re creating is of high value.
-Business Acumen- Should have a great eye for Business acumen as the product build will be exposed to millions of customers on-brand digital assets hence giving you exposure for handling a large user base in a live environment.
-Teamplayer- Someone who is able to work in a challenging environment and requires complete devotion, persistence and learning new things every day. As they will be involved in every fact of the product development starting from product ideation, Interface design, user experience, analytics, and engineering.
Typical work week look like:-
- Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Design and implementation of scalable applications by using asynchronous programming with low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications between multiple systems, servers, and environments.
-Integration of data storage solutions by creating database schemas that represent and support business processes and also Integrating multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Explore technical innovation and propose new solutions as and when required.
- Work with engineers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every month.
Our ideal candidate should have:-
- 4+ years of relevant experience in a Tech Startup
- A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Information Technologies/Computer Science)
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript and knowledge of Node.js and frameworks.
- Strong hands on MongoDB and ability to write aggregation queries.
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3.
- Hands-on on code versioning tools, such as Git, Redis, AWS, Sockets
Job Description:
As a MERN Full Stack Developer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining web applications using the MERN (MongoDB, Postgresql, Express.js, React, Node.js) stack. You will work closely with our product and design teams to build high-quality, scalable, and efficient solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and Maintain Web Applications: Design, develop, and deploy full-stack web applications using the MERN stack.
- API Development and Integration: Create and integrate RESTful APIs.
- Database Management: Design and manage databases using MongoDB.
- Code Quality and Testing: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Implement unit tests and integration tests.
- Collaborate with Cross-functional Teams: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other developers to deliver high-quality products.
- Performance Optimization: Identify and implement performance improvements for existing applications.
- Stay Updated with Industry Trends: Keep abreast of latest trends and technologies in web development.
Required Qualifications:
- Experience: 3-4 years of professional experience as a Full Stack Developer.
- Technical Skills:
- PostgreSQL: Proficient in database design, indexing, and performance optimization.
- Express.js: Solid experience in building and managing APIs and middleware.
- React: Strong knowledge of React and related libraries (Redux, React Router, etc.).
- Node.js: Expertise in server-side development and asynchronous programming.
- HTML/CSS: Proficient in web markup and responsive design.
- JavaScript/TypeScript: Advanced proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Version Control: Experience with Git and Git workflows.
- Soft Skills:
- Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple tasks.
- Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of GraphQL.
- Prior experience in Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunity to work with a talented and diverse team.
- Professional development opportunities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
- Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
- Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
- Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
- Write unit tests for API Testing.
- Automate the code testing and deployment process.
Skills Required:
- At least 2.5 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
- Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
- Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
- Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
- Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
- Experience building a large-scale social or location-based app.
Area
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.
Role
We are looking for a Software Engineer - NodeJS to join our awesome team and deliver a streamlined user experience. We want a team member who strives to develop a first-class codebase using Nodejs best practices. As a Nodejs Developer, you will implement a complete user interface in the form of a mobile/desktop web app & handle its integration with the back-end.
Responsibilities
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Collaborate with front-end and back-end developers and designers to build website following client requirements
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Create clear, simple, and reusable code
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Develop all server-side logic, including data storage to optimize website performance
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Identify programming bottlenecks and bugs and find fixes
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Test, update and validate web applications to be used on different web browsers
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Execute automated testing platforms and system tests
Qualifications
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BSc/BE/BTech in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
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At least 2+ years of experience with JavaScript and Node.js
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Hands-on expertise in REST, MySQL/PostgreSQL, WebSocket, MongoDB, Redis, etc.
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Familiarity with Docker and AWS infrastructure
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Understanding of data security principles
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Proficiency in JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks
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Strong analytical and problem-solving aptitude skills

- Ability to work in an existing codebase and collaborate with a diverse team
- Experience in building enterprise-scale backend REST APIs with frameworks such as Nest.js & Express.js using an API-first paradigm
- Intimate knowledge of crafting highly performant database queries
- Hands-on experience implementing relational database structures, including tables, indexes, views, etc.
- A mindset towards building systems for the cloud and DevOps fundamentals
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services is good to have. If not then willingness to learn should be there.
- Focus towards building security, performance, and scalability into services from the beginning
- Experience with debugging code and troubleshooting technical issues in order to craft appropriate solutions
The candidate’s primary focus will be developing new features for our
modern web application. They will get exposure to an ‘agile-centric’
delivery model, while leveraging modern / innovative JavaScript
approaches. A candidate who is driven, innovative and has passion for
elegant technical solutions will thrive in this role.
- You should have deep understanding of NodeJS
- You should be strong in Javascript and TypeScript
- You should be capable of writing complex queries
- ES6, Express, Apollo Server, Send Grid Email, Twilio SMS, Payment
- Gateway,
- Error Loggin, API Developement, API Security,
- PostGreSQL/MSSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/CouchDB
- Very good knowledge on REST API
- Good experience in Agile methodologies
- Ability to design and write code complying with coding standards
- and other factors like performance, scalability, reliability,
- reusability, modularity in mind
- You should have strong logical and problem solving skills
- Excellent communication and customer interfacing skills
- AWS certification is nice to have
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript and good to have
- ES6(Typescript) knowledge
- Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks such as Express, Restify
- Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its
- quirks and workarounds
- Understanding accessibility and security compliance
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems,
- servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one
- system
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable
- application
- Competencies and Skills Required
- equires excellent analytical, problem solving, and good
- communications skills
- Must be able to work effectively with business stakeholders
- Strong passion for delivering technical solutions to business
- problems
- Understanding and mindset of Agile software delivery (Ability to
- adapt to continually changing priorities)
- Team player who understands the importance of teamwork and
- collaboration
- Passion for delivering new approaches and challenging the ‘statusquo’
- Hungry to learn and always in search of continuous improvement
Experience with Hibernate and Spring.
- Experience with Spring-boot, spring MVC
- Experience with all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, including system analysis, design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation
- Teamwork & collaboration skills to work across organizations
- Problem solving skills to develop quick yet sound solutions to resolve complex issues
- Programming Language(s): Java, J2EE, JSON, HTML, DHTML, HTML 5, XML, EXTJS.
- Experience with XML/HTTP and Web Services
- Experience with HTML, JSP, CSS, JQuery / Ajax / JSON,
- Experience /Knowledge of Angular, React.
- Experience building J2EE based Web Applications
- Experience with MySql.









