Staff Backend Engineer

Job Title : SDE 2 – Node.js (Zendesk)

Experience : 8 to 12 Years

Location : Bengaluru (Tesco Main Campus, Whitefield)

Work Mode : Hybrid (3 Days Work From Office)

Employment Type : Contract to Hire (1 Year+ Project)

Open Positions : 2

Notice Period : Immediate / Serving Notice / Max 20 Days Joiners Preferred

Role Overview :

We are looking for an experienced SDE 2 – Node.js professional with strong expertise in backend development, API integrations, and web technologies. The ideal candidate should be skilled in building scalable applications and working within Agile environments.

Mandatory Skills :

Node.js, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, jQuery, API & Middleware Integration, Full Stack Development, Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications using Node.js and JavaScript.
• Build and manage system integrations using APIs and middleware.
• Work on frontend technologies such as HTML, CSS, and jQuery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in Scrum/Kanban environments.
• Deliver high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Quickly adapt to new technologies and business requirements.

Required Skills :

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Strong expertise in Node.js and JavaScript.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, and jQuery.
• Hands-on experience with API integration and middleware solutions.
• Exposure to Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Good to Have :

• Experience with Zendesk or similar tools such as Freshdesk, ServiceNow, Salesforce Service Cloud, or HubSpot

Interview Process :

• L1 : Technical Assessment (via Barraiser/Intervue)
• L2 & Further Rounds : Client technical discussions (2+ rounds expected)

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

• Build and scale backend services using Node.js & Express
• Architect and optimize MongoDB schemas for performance
• Contribute to frontend features with Next.js & React
• Debug production issues, optimize API latency & CI/CD pipelines
• Integrate MathJax (LaTeX rendering) & VdoCipher (secure video)

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Strong DSA fundamentals — logical thinking over competitive coding
• Deep JavaScript/TypeScript knowledge: Closures, Promises, Event Loop
• 1–2 original projects (no To-Do apps or tutorial clones)
• Ability to independently pick up Docker, Redis, or AWS
• Ownership mindset — ensure it works in production, not just locally

BONUS POINTS

• Docker / containerization basics
• Real-world AWS experimentation (EC2, S3, Lambda)
• Active GitHub profile: open-source contributions or unique projects

AI Usage Policy:

We encourage AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, GPT-4) as force multipliers — but you must own your code, explain rade-offs, and debug without solely relying on AI.

HOW TO APPLY

• Share your GitHub profile link
• Include live demo links to your best, most original projects

We value what you've built far more than what's on your resume.

• 3+ years of experience in the Development in JAVA technology.
• AWS or cloud Experience
• Strong Java Basics
• SpringBoot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience on Relationl Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
• Proficient in REST API development
• Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
• Microservices
• Any Caching Mechanism
• Good at problem-solving

Good to Have Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced internet start-up environment.
• Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Engineering Lead (Backend/Full stack)

About

It is a mission-oriented high-growth fintech startup building payment &

lending products to simplify education payments. Jodo’s suite of products make education payments convenient & affordable for parents while simplifying & streamlining fee collections for educational institutes. Jodo aims to be a category-defining company with a mission to be a

trusted partner to parents in fulfilling their aspirations for their kids’ education.

We are backed by marquee VC investors – Tiger Global, Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners – to realize this mission. It is started by three co-founders who have a pedigreed education

(IIT/IIM) and professional background (Nomura, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Matrix Partners).

🎬Job Description:

We are looking for an Engineering Leader with a focus on building maintainable and scalable applications. The Lead will be responsible for the design and development of Jodo’s fee payments platform and be owning one of the products/verticals. Leads will be closely working

with Product Managers and Founders to execute projects from ideation to completion. As a hands-on Team Lead, you will take ownership of services/systems and guide a team of

developers.

📈Key Responsibilities

● Own and drive the development of one or more of Jodo’s products

● Take the lead in the design and development of the backend platform

● Mentor a team of developers, promote collaboration and engagement, and promote practices that improve the developer experience

● Work closely with Product Managers and Founders to brainstorm requirements and prioritize

● Own quality - actively participate in code reviews

● Own reliability - continuously monitor Production Health, proactively fix production issues

● Own execution - Plan and delegate work for the team, optimize for speed of development and incremental delivery

📃Requirements

● 6+ years of hands-on experience in application development

● 1+ years of leading a team

● Experience in working with distributed systems

● Proficient in building Microservices/RESTful APIs with any modern tech stack

● Working knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases

● Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus

● Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools

● Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services

● Champion code quality and drive best practices

● Ability to analyze and convert business requirements into technical requirements

● Self-starter and ability to take the ownership

● Prior experience working in a startup environment is great to have

● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

🤩Benefits

● Becoming a part of the early core team

● Competitive salary

● Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed

● Opportunity to interact with and learn from high-pedigree investors & mentors -

○ VCs: Elevation Capital (erstwhile SAIF Partners), Matrix Partners

○ Select angel investors: Kunal Shah, Nithin Kamath, Amit Ranjan

🔎What are we looking for?

● Self-starter with a high sense of ownership → Comfortable to work with minimal

supervision

● Hungry to learn and grow → Passion to learn & be a better version of oneself; motivated to succeed

● Bias for action → Have the temperament to experiment and execute in uncertainty

● Hustler → Ability to generate resources to solve a problem

● Intellectual honesty → Always seeking and presenting truth irrespective of personal

POV or beliefs

● Mission-oriented → Deeply care about delivering value and making an impact on customer’s lives

✅Key Details

● Role: Engineering Lead

● Location: Bengaluru

● Compensation: Negotiable based on candidate profile (structured as Fixed + ESOPs)

● Date of Joining: ASAP

We are seeking a skilled NestJS/PostgreSQL Developer to join our development team. As a NestJS/PostgreSQL Developer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing server-side applications, APIs, and databases using NestJS framework and PostgreSQL. You will work closely with other developers, stakeholders, and project managers to deliver high-quality software solutions.

Responsibilities:

1. Develop server-side applications and APIs using the NestJS framework.
2. Design and implement efficient and scalable database schemas using PostgreSQL.
3. Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate server-side logic with the user interface.
4. Write clean and maintainable code following best practices and coding standards.
5. Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve code quality.
6. Optimize application performance and troubleshoot any issues or bugs.
7. Work closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
8. Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, including planning, designing, coding, testing, and deployment.
9. Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in web development, NestJS, and PostgreSQL.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
2. Proven experience (2-5 years) in server-side application development using NestJS framework.
3. Strong knowledge of TypeScript and JavaScript.
4. Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
5. Proficiency in building and consuming RESTful APIs.
6. Familiarity with Git version control system.
7. Good understanding of software development principles, design patterns, and best practices.
8. Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
9. Strong communication and collaboration skills.
10. Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience with other JavaScript frameworks such as Angular or React.
2. Knowledge of microservices architecture and containerization (e.g., Docker).
3. Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
4. Experience with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Jasmine).
5. Understanding of Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

Job Description - 221135

Cloudera is looking for a highly experienced software engineer with strong expertise in Java development and a specialty in platform architecture to join the Cloudera Lens team.

Cloudera Lens is a high-fidelity, context-rich, and fully correlated self-service observability & optimization tool that analyzes the state and wellness of a customer’s environments and empowers them to proactively discover and address unknown unknowns in their data, scale operations without compromising on performance or costs, and expedite remediation of issues.

As a Java engineer, you will be working in a team of engineers led by an Engineering Manager, collaborating with other engineers and stakeholders in India, United States, and other countries around the globe.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, architecture, design, and implementation of key aspects of the Cloudera Lens data collection, data analytics, data correlations, and recommendations.

• Work with product management, engineering, UX, and documentation teams to deliver high-quality products.
• Interact with partners and customers to help define roadmap and shape the technology.
• Empower team members to deliver high-quality software at a fast pace.

Requirements:

• Proven track record of performance.
• Passionate about software engineering. Clean coding habits, attention to detail, and focus on quality and testability.

• Strong software engineering skills: object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms.
• Experience with containerization orchestration technologies: Kubernetes, Docker.
• Deep knowledge of system architecture, including process, memory, storage, and network management is highly desired.
• Experience with the following: Java, concurrent programming, and related areas.
• Experience with Java memory management, performance tuning and scaling
• Experience in building horizontally scalable products handling multi-terabyte datasets is desirable.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases: PostgreSQL, Amazon S3.
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English.

Advantageous To Have:

• Experience in building enterprise-grade cloud products.
• Experience with building/using cross-functional observability products.
• BS or MS in computer science.
• Cloud experience: AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Python, Linux, Micro Services experience.

Roles and responsibilities

• Develop well-designed performant and scalable applications and microservices
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code aligning to software development best practices
• Integrate data storage solutions including databases, key-value stores, blob stores, etc.
• Build integrations with 3rd party applications through apis’ to ingest and process data
• Develop state-of-the-art analytics tools to support diverse tasks ranging from ad hoc analysis to production-grade pipelines and workflows for customer applications
• Ensure security and data protection aspects within the applications
• Partner with Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers to improve the performance and reliability of advanced algorithms
• Ensure high performance and availability of distributed systems and applications
• Interact directly with client project team members and operational staff to support live customer deployments and production issues

• 4+ years of experience in developing applications using python and related technologies.
• Familiarity in data ingestion and processing libraries in python.
• Thorough understanding of REST and GRPC technologies.
• Experience in using ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries for data access.
• Experiencing in developing and hosting APIs and integration with external applications.
• Experience in building data models and repositories using relational and NoSql databases.
• Knowledge of JIRA, Bitbucket and agile methodologies.
• Good to have knowledge of AWS services like Lambda, dynamodb, kinesis and others.
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Familiarity with event-driven programming
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Affinity for learning and applying new technologies and solving new problems
• Effective organizational skills with strong attention to detail
• Experience in working with docker is a plus
• Comfortable in working with Unix/Linux environment
• Strong communication skills — both written and verbal