Sr. Node.js Engineer

Mandatory skills

Job Title: Associate Backend Engineer

Job Summary:

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Associate Backend Engineer with 1 to 2 years of experience to join our growing engineering team. Whether you're a recent graduate or have some industry experience, this role offers a strong foundation to grow your skills in real-world backend development. You’ll work closely with experienced engineers and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend systems that power our products.

This position is ideal for individuals who are eager to learn, write production-grade code, and grow into a high-performing backend engineer.

Website: https://www.thealteroffice.com/about

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in building and maintaining backend services and APIs for web and mobile applications.
• Work with both relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) databases for data modeling and storage.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code under guidance.
• Contribute to authentication, authorization, and other core backend features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, frontend, and QA to deliver complete features.
• Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback to improve code quality.
• Debug issues, write unit/integration tests, and help maintain service reliability and performance.
• Learn to work with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and deployment workflows.
• Use tools like Docker, basic cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure), and optionally explore monitoring/logging tools.
• Explore new technologies such as GraphQL, WebSockets, or message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) when relevant.

Requirements:

• 1 to 2 years of backend development experience, including internships, academic projects, freelance, or open-source work.
• Familiarity with at least one backend programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, etc.).
• Basic understanding of RESTful APIs, HTTP, databases, and server-side logic.
• Exposure to SQL and NoSQL databases and understanding of CRUD operations.
• Familiarity with Git and fundamental development workflows.
• Willingness to learn and apply best practices in scalability, security, and asynchronous programming.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and eagerness to take feedback and grow.
• Good communication and collaboration skills in a team environment.

Location: Hyderabad

Work Mode: Hybrid (2 days WFO)

Experience Required: 4.5+ years

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Preferred

Employment Type: Full-Time

Mandatory Requirements:

• 4.5+ years of experience in Java Development
• Hands-on experience with AWS in a production environment
• Must be available to join immediately
• Must be willing to work in Hybrid mode from Hyderabad

Technical Skill Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices
• Solid understanding of OOP concepts, Multithreading, and REST APIs
• Practical knowledge and experience working with AWS services like EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, SNS, etc.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and version control systems (Git)
• Good knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Ability to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based backend applications
• Implement and integrate AWS services to ensure scalability and reliability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including QA, DevOps, and Front-end developers
• Optimize application performance and troubleshoot issues in a timely manner
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and team discussions
• Ensure best practices in code quality, security, and documentation
• Handle deployments and production support if needed

As a back-end developer, you’ll work on our back-end app that is built with Ruby on Rails. You’ll help to plan and develop new features, review other people’s code, fix bugs, help in technological and business decisions, and support the internal team.

Responsibilities

• Work in our main app back end built with Ruby on Rails
• Act as an architect of new features
• Review other people's code
• Fix bugs
• Help in decisions of technology and business
• Support internal team
• Refactor code

Requirements

• At least 3 years of industry experience
• At least 1 year of experience working on Ruby on Rails projects
• Comfortable in dealing with server infrastructure and deployment processes
• Experience with continuous delivery and automated testing.
• Experience with refactoring Ruby on Rails applications
• Experience in designing, developing and maintaining APIs
• Can work for at least a couple of hours during Japanese business hours

Nice to haves

These aren’t required, but be sure to mention them in your application if you have them.

• UI/UX design principles
• Good understanding of coding best practices and design patterns
• Understanding of security technologies (encryption, authentication, OAuth 2.0)
• Contribution to open source projects
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed
• Agile Development experience

Have an experience building backend server side applications in Node.js and Express.js

Have in-depth knowledge and experience of using ES6+ features and Object Oriented Principles

Have sound knowledge and are familiar with databases like MongoDb - (Preferred) and Mysql.

Have good exposure to cloud native technologies (AWS Lambda, S3, RDS, etc) 

Have working knowledge of version control (Git) and continuous deployment 

Have experience in optimising backend API’s and database queries for optimal performance.

You are good at problem solving and have analytical skills 

You are flexible in adapting new technologies and frameworks as per the projects needs

Type: Individual contributor with good hands on proficiency. 

Must have

• Strong proficiency in at least one of  Java, Ruby, Python
• Exposure to databases: any of  PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache Cassandra
• Any NoSQL database experience is a plus
• Exposure to AWS cloud infrastructure: EC2 or S3 
• Proficiency with Git
• MUST: Using REST to make API calls. 

Great to have: 

• Experience working with one or more middleware, enterprise bus, queueing frameworks
• Any of Memcached/Redis, Apache Kafka / RabbitMQ / PubSub+ / AmazonMQ

Soft skills:

• Appreciation for clean and well documented code

What will you do at Tradyl:

(Examples for illustration only)

• Build a shipping service module that is called by our website to query shipping rates from India to a destination country. Configure this to so that an Ops person can update shipping costs as and when they change. Own deployment and monitoring of this service. 
• Use Zapier to build a workflow to export a MixPanel report into a Google sheet every day.
• Change our supplier portal (built on bubble.io) to make an API call to our customer facing site, whenever a supplier modifies his profile.
• Write an alert mechanism that identifies catalogues with insufficient information and makes them non discoverable, which can run every day.
• Work with Business Team to design a workflow for product inwarding using Airtable. Write a small app within Airtable so that whenever a product is updated as “shipped” in airtable, it updates the customer facing website.
• Use an open source dashboarding framework to create a quick dashboard to track important business events. 

Project

You will be working to build a browser-based IDE and various other inclusive edtech product, if you’re up for the task - apply

Requirements 

Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Solid experience working with the PHP and latest Laravel version

Proven expertise in managing API services (REST and SOAP)

Good working knowledge in design and query optimization of databases

Familiarity with server tools (Apache) and cloud servers (Azure / AWS)

Our Culture

We are passionate about other’s success and believe that all individuals are unique and capable of reaching their full potential. Our goal is to challenge the status quo and make a difference.

Do you want to translate your skills & time into something more meaningful? Join us to empower individuals who have been neglected by society and break barriers through tech. Together, we will build a wider movement for educational equity.