
Sr. Backend Developer
We are a fast growing Chennai-based startup (with venture funding) and clients like Swiggy!
We are here for the long run and are led by strong engineers with experience at top tier firms
and authors of Java Standards at Sun Microsystems
We're building an awesome enterprise product that is already transforming businesses across
the globe
We have raised investment, so this role will not vanish in a few months
Our mentors include the Vice Chairman of HCL Technologies, Chairman of Singapore Airlines,
Senior leaders from LinkedIn etc.
Other background information
We're looking for strong, passionate developers who want to join our team and grow
We move fast, and will make you an offer in a few days for the right person
The job location will be in Chennai (it is the SaaS capital of India)
Please only apply if you are open to moving to Chennai (or are already here)
This won't be a 10 - 6 job, but you will be given amazing responsibilities
You will learn a ton, have a lot of flexibility, and have fun while doing it!
Responsibilities
1. Own major parts of our tech stack, but primarily the Javascript work
2. Build cutting edge applications in Node.JS, React/Angular etc.
3. Work on new tech that we are already some of the leading users of (like Firebase)
4. Work closely with mobile team, UX and PM team to construct creative solutions
5. Develop reusable custom components that can be used across application at run time
6. Optimize, improve efficiency, scalability, stability of application
7. MUST BE reliable, and be able to communicate clearly
8. MUST BE able to own and deliver their own work within deadlines, professionally
Bonus Points for experience using Firebase, NoSQL, or building high-scale applications.
Job Perks
Daily breakfast
Nice Friday team lunches
Macbook
Informal work environment - without hierarchy
Stock options (in lakhs)
Stipend to attend conferences
Potential travel to Singapore
Notice period: less than 45 days.
CTC :No bar for right candidate.
5+ relevant experience.
Candidates comfortable to relocate at Chennai can apply.

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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.
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.


About GeoSnapshot:
GeoSnapshot is a leading platform enabling sports and event organizers to upload, share, and sell photos with participants. Our team operates in a fast-paced, collaborative, and fully remote environment. We value creativity, independence, and a strong desire to learn and grow with us.
Role Overview:
We are seeking a motivated and talented Ruby on Rails Developer with React experience to join our dynamic remote team. You will work on our core platform, contributing to both backend (Ruby on Rails) and frontend (React) development. As a part of a small but highly skilled team, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, take ownership of features, and make a real impact.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, enhance, and maintain features on the GeoSnapshot platform using Ruby on Rails.
- Build responsive and interactive front-end components using React.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other developers, to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Write clean, maintainable, and scalable code, adhering to best practices.
- Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize performance issues across the stack.
- Work independently while staying aligned with team goals and timelines.
- Learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks as needed.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of professional experience with Ruby on Rails and React.
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and how to integrate them with front-end applications.
- Proficient in relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL or MySQL) and ORM frameworks.
- Familiarity with modern JavaScript (ES6+), CSS3, and HTML5.
- Experience with version control systems like Git.
- Comfortable working in a remote setup and communicating effectively in a distributed team.
- Self-motivated and eager to learn new tools and technologies.
Preferred Skills (Nice-to-Have):
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or similar.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
- Understanding of photo management systems or e-commerce platforms.
Why Join GeoSnapshot?
- Work in a fully remote, flexible environment.
- Be part of a growing, innovative team working on impactful solutions.
- Opportunities for professional growth and learning new technologies.
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
We are looking forward to hiring a committed
Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You will be part of our Engineering team that works on mission-critical applications. You will be managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.
Location = Pune
You are required to:
Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle.
Write well designed, testable & efficient code.
Ensure designs comply with specifications.
Prepare and produce releases of software components.
Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
Our Current Stack
Backend: Spring (JAVA), Laravel (PHP), MySQL, NoSQL, NGINX Plus.
Frontend: Angular 5+ Ngrx/store 5
Infrastructure: Google cloud platform (App engine, CloudSQL, BigQuery, PubSub, Firebase Hosting), Scrapy Cloud, Pusher.io (websockets), Getstream.io, Filestack, Postmark app, AS2 Gateway, Google Cloud Endpoints Framework, MongoDB, Algolia, Memcache
Tools: Gitlab, Postman app, JIRA.
Technical Skills required
JAVA, SPRING OR SPRING BOOT, DATA STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS, HIBERNATE, MYSQL, MONGODB and NOSQL
What Makes You Eligible?
LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES FROM PUNE LOCATION ONLY.
B. Tech degree ONLY ( FIRST CLASS GRADE IN FINAL YEAR 60 % OR ABOVE ONLY).
Experience in the same role of almost 1-2 years.
Experience with connecting backend and frontend services.
Exposure to consuming data through different interfaces (Web API's/Socket/ REST/ RESTFUL/ JSON/ XML).
Proficiency in Data Structures and Algorithms.
Understanding of web markup, including HTML 5 CSS.
Understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks.
Ability to write clean, reusable and well documented code.
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
Knowledge of API authentication techniques (Token, JWT, OAuth2) - desirable but not mandatory. (Experience with API Design will be a plus)
Fair spoken and written English Flexibility - Things change around here. FAST!
Other Inter-personal skills like self-motivation, persistency, patience and eagerness to learn and work independently.
About Us
Aura is developing a platform to help companies/communities mint, buy, trade and sell NFTs in the easiest manner possible. Developing a state of the art store front customized to the community and a user friendly interface to unlock the digital growth of companies in the gaming, art, music, etc space by leveraging the power of NFTs. We are assembling a high performing team from the tech ecosystem to build this product and compete with the likes of NBA TopShot.
Requirements:
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side logic
- Building reusable code and libraries for future use
- Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Implementation of security and data protection
- Design and implementation of data storage solutions
Skills and Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in Node.js. Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors, such as LESS and SASS
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Proficient understanding of security principles
- Understanding of “session management” in a distributed server environment
- Must have an understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases like Postgres, MySQL, Mongodb etc.
- Must have an understanding of Cloud: AWS or GCP
- Must have a good understanding of data structures and Algorithms
Benefits:
- Work on the cutting edge of blockchain technology and the upcoming use-case of NFTs (Non Fungible Token)
- Be a part of an early stage startup with funding from founders of Polygon


Candidate Profile
- Minimum 2+ years of experience.
- Should have worked with Product based company for a minimum 2+ yrs
- Strong background in Microsoft Technologies and SDLC concepts. Should have experience in below technologies:
- Microsoft .Net (ASP.NET & ASP .NET CORE)
- C#, JavaScript, CSS, JQuery /, Typescript
- Knowledge on Node Js
- MVC and WebAPI
- MS SQL Server management Studio (SSMS) to develop database objects such as Stored Procedures, Functions, views, triggers, constraints etc. and look for performance tuning and Exception handling for these components
- Good to have: Understanding of MS Excel VBA /MS-access/ macro codes

Technical:
- Advanced working knowledge of Magento, JavaScript/JQuery, HTML5, PHP, CSS3, and MySQL.
- Must have experience with complete eCommerce lifecycle development.
- Must have experience in modules/extensions development/customization.
- Must have experience in Theme and API integration/customization.
- Good communication skills.
- Must have knowledge of SSH, Nginx, and Apache.
- Knowledge in the GIT version is plus.
Non-Technical:
- Interpersonal skills
- Excellent Verbal & Written communication
- Decision maker
- Good Listener
- Ability to work independently
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Develop back-end/frontend new functionality
- Building and configuring Magento 1x and 2x eCommerce websites.
- Coding of the Magento templates.
- Developing Magento modules in PHP using best practices.
- Designing themes and interfaces.
- Setting performance tasks and goals.
- Troubleshooting integration issues.
- 3+ years of overall experience
- Understanding about AWS - EC2, S3, RDS etc
- Extensive experience building and refactoring Java applications
- Good work experience with Message Que - Ka a, Rabbit MQ, etc
- Understanding and experience building high-performance, scalable algorithms.
- Understanding of Agile or Kanban / Lean so ware development methodologies- Experience using modern build
tools such as Maven, Jenkins, Github, etc. a plus - Be hands-on, willing to dig in and crank out code.
- Be a learner, able to explore new areas, learn new things, and quickly apply them to solve new problems.
- Be a spark, bring energy, passion and creativity to work every day.
Good to have
- No-sql experience ( dynamo , mongo , Cassandra etc. )
- Datadog or similar monitoring tool
- Docker exposure
- 5-10 years of experience in building API services using NodeJS Express and related frameworks
- Expert level understanding of NodeJS asynchronous runtime
- Expert level understanding of Javascript concepts on callbacks and closures
- Experience with Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, and Firebase real-time database
- Experience with AWS services like Elastic Beanstalk, Cloudfront, S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, etc
- Understanding of patterns and techniques for building scalable back-end infrastructure including caching, rate limiting, authentication, and authorization schemes.
- Experience in building highly scalable and high throughput services with millisecond response times
- Experience working in a collaborative team environment
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
- Willingness to learn and pick up new technology along with patience to mentor
Bonus skills –
- Experience with Elastic Search, Puppeteer
- Experience writing unit test
Containerization and CICD environment experience.
Strong analytical skills and problem solving aptitude attention to details
SKILLS WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Build reusable APIs for our client-facing apps in Node.js
Create and maintain scalable infrastructure leveraging modern cloud platforms Write tests and documentation as you implement features with your team Maintain expertise in current and emerging technologies and tools
THE PERSON WE ARE LOOKING FOR
4+ years’ Experience with NodeJS
BS degree or higher in Computer Science or Engineering Experience documenting and testing RESTful APIs
Experience working with databases in PostgreSQL, MongoDB or Redis
Experience and enthusiasm for working collaboratively with others in an Agile environment

