Software Engineering Manager (Tech Start-up)

Role Overview

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer who can build high-performance backend systems using Node.js. You’ll work on complex engineering problems, optimize for scale, and own features end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities

● Develop backend services, APIs, and microservices using Node.js frameworks (Express, Nest.js).

● Own modules end-to-end: design → implementation → testing → deployment.

● Write high-quality, testable, maintainable code.

● Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability across systems.

● Troubleshoot production issues, perform RCA, and improve stability.

● Work with databases (SQL & NoSQL), caching, and async processing.

● Collaborate with DevOps for CI/CD, deployments, and automation.

● Contribute to improving engineering standards, documentation, and processes

What we’re looking for:

● 4 to 7 years of hands-on backend development experience.

● Strong in Node.js, async patterns, TypeScript (preferred), and REST APIs.

● Solid understanding of: Data modeling Queues & background jobs Caching (Redis) API optimization

● Experience with relational DBs (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB/MongoDB/ Redis).

● Experience with messaging/queues: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or equivalent.

● Familiarity with Docker, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.

● Exposure to AWS or cloud infrastructure.

● Strong debugging and performance tuning skills.

● Ability to work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

Here are answers to some questions you may have

Where is your office?

Chennai (Velachery)

Work Model

Work from Office – because great stories are built in person!

Do you have an online presence?

https://amura.ai (we are @AmuraHealth on all social media)

For better insights:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11UHgXqYc7XSJ3IAdFyEm-EurgOzqsmzA/view?usp=sharing

Responsibilities

• Design and build highly reliable, scalable and performant infrastructure for media heavy workflows.
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner.
• Take the accountability of the overall health of the infrastructure you build.
• Platformize components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse.
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly.
• Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.

Requirements

• 4 to 10 years of industry experience in software engineering with at least 4 years in Video, Audio & Image processing and streaming technologies.
• Deep expertise with various codecs, compute efficiency, streaming protocols and network topologies for media heavy workflows.
• Deep understanding of your tools: Languages, frameworks, libraries and systems.
• Experience with abstracting requirements into frameworks.
• Hungry to learn, share knowledge, and enjoy mentoring others.
• Data driven, having customer empathy, striving to build best of class, performant services.

In this role, you will be responsible for building world-class technology products and platforms that are at the forefront of the technology revolution in the Indian healthcare ecosystem. You are someone who insists on the highest standards for quality, maintainability, and performance.

About the Role 

As a result of our rapid growth, we are looking for a Java Backend Engineer to join our existing Cloud Engineering team and take the lead in the design and development of several key initiatives of our existing Miko3 product line as well as our new product development initiatives. 

Responsibilities 

•  Designing, developing and maintaining core system features, services and engines
• Collaborating with a cross functional team of the backend, Mobile application, AI, signal processing, robotics Engineers, Design, Content, and Linguistic Team to realize the requirements of conversational social robotics platform which includes investigate design approaches, prototype new technology, and evaluate technical feasibility
• Ensure the developed backend infrastructure is optimized for scale and responsiveness 
• Ensure best practices in design, development, security, monitoring, logging, and DevOps adhere to the execution of the project. 
• Introducing new ideas, products, features by keeping track of the latest developments and industry trends 
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules

Requirements 

• Proficiency in distributed application development lifecycle (concepts of authentication/authorization, security, session management, load balancing, API gateway), programming techniques and tools (application of tested, proven development paradigms)  
• Proficiency in working on Linux based Operating system. 
• Working Knowledge of container orchestration platform like Kubernetes
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language like Java. Additional languages like Python and PHP are a plus 
• Proficiency in at least one server-side framework like Servlets, Spring, java spark (Java). 
• Proficient in using ORM/Data access frameworks like Hibernate,JPA with spring or other server-side frameworks. 
• Proficiency in at least one data serialization framework: Apache Thrift, Google ProtoBuffs, Apache Avro,Google Json,JackSon etc. 
• Proficiency in at least one of inter process communication frameworks WebSocket's, RPC, message queues, custom HTTP libraries/frameworks ( kryonet, RxJava ), etc.  
• Proficiency in multithreaded programming and Concurrency concepts (Threads, Thread Pools, Futures, asynchronous programming). 
• Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling)
• Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
• Good understanding of networking and communication protocols, and proficiency in identification CPU, memory & I/O bottlenecks, solve read & write-heavy workloads. 
• Proficiency is concepts of monolithic and microservice architectural paradigms. 
• Proficiency in working on at least one of cloud hosting platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.   
• Proficiency in at least one of database SQL, NO-SQL, Graph databases like MySQL, MongoDB, Orientdb 
• Proficiency in at least one of testing frameworks or tools JMeter, Locusts, Taurus 
• Proficiency in at least one RPC communication framework: Apache Thrift, GRPC is an added plus 
• Proficiency in asynchronous libraries (RxJava), frameworks (Akka),Play,Vertx is an added plus 
• Proficiency in functional programming ( Scala ) languages is an added plus 
• Proficiency in working with NoSQL/graph databases is an added plus 
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of tools for server, application metrics logging and monitoring and is a plus Monit, ELK, graylog is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization utilities like Ansible, Salt, Puppet is an added plus 
• Working Knowledge of DevOps containerization technologies like Docker, LXD is an added plus  

Job Responsibility and Duties

-We are looking for talent who is quick learner and grasp things quickly, well understand the requirement of feature/product, analysis the risk or edge cases, find the possible solutions and able to implement the one solutions out of proposed.

-Open for taking ownership of the feature and quality as leader. Able to design the user experience.

-You are responsible for the release quality feature on time.

-Your day to day job may involve system design, writing quality code, unit testing, team/co-worker handling, collaborative working and solution driven outcome execution.

Qualification & Skills 

-Actually degree doesn’t matter but if you did B.Tech./B.E/M.Tech/M.E./MCA good for the positions.

-This position for the node.js backend engineer.

-This other skill into your profile adds you more benefits, knowing multiple language such as python, golang, fullstack developer(also knows react.js, vue.js)

According to your talent we have 5 classification on Backend Engineering Department

1. Software Engineer   3-5LPA
2. Sr Software Engineer  5-8LPA
3. Lead Software Engineer 8-15LPA
4. Tech Lead    15-25LPA
5. Architects & System Designer 25-50LPA

At LambdaTest, We help developers and testers fix their applications across a combination of 2000+ browsers and Operating Systems by providing a complete cross-browser ecosystem on the cloud. As Backend Developer You will work with other Developers throughout the Software Development Life Cycle.

You will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design, build and roll out product that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.

What’s the Opportunity?

• As a hands-on engineering professional, you'll stay on top of the details and will be more focused on building a better, more efficient program and creating the best user experience and 
• Support and collaborate with our service engineers in getting to the bottom of issues and come up with robust solutions.
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people.
• Design distributed systems using micro services architecture would be plus.
• Implementing high performance and non-blocking systems to serve traffic heavy SaaS based product.

Requirements and qualifications-

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education with 2-4 Years of work experience.
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to:Python, Golang, NodeJs 
• A solid understanding of software construction
• The ability to naturally follow good development practices like test automation, CI/CD, source version control, etc.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
• Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
• Mentor and lead junior members of the team

You should have:

• Ability to think of out of the box
• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It is a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud

We are looking for self-motivated backend developers for full-time positions with good skills in NodeJS and Azure.

Selected developer's day-to-day responsibilities include:

1) Write lambda functions and fix bugs - NodeJS on Azure platform

2) Good skills in NodeJS required and good working knowledge in Azure Serverless stack required

3) Preferable to have Azure certifications (Associate or Professional levels)

Salary: INR 2.4L Per Annum (INR 20k per month)

**Who can apply**:

* Final year college / passouts or ones with around 1 year of experience

* Available for full time employment (remote work for the time being)

* Preferably can start immediately

* Have relevant skills and interests

* Women willing to start/restart their career can also apply.

Tech Stack:

Golang, Microservices (AWS ECS, App Mesh), Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, NATS.

Required Skills:

- 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails OR 2+ years of experience with Golang.

- 5+ years of experience with MySQL or Postgres and relational data modelling.

- Experience consuming and writing REST APIs.

- Focus on writing clear, maintainable, tested code.

- Experience with Git, continuous integration and regular deployments.

- Experience with complex Rails projects and design principles.

- Strong willingness to learn and use Golang at work.

- Experience with CI (continuous integration).

- Strong understanding of Linux.

- Strong understanding of Docker.

- You must be a strong communicator who can explain complex ideas to anyone regardless of background.

Preferred Skills:

- 2+ years of experience with Golang.

- Experience with Microservices deployed in Kubernetes.

- Experience with AWS ECS, App Mesh and Lambda.

- Ability and interest in mentoring junior engineers a plus.

- Excellent written communication skills and diligent ability to contribute to the team by performing code reviews.

- B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience