Staff/ Lead Back End Engineer (Nest.js, Nodejs, GCP)

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• API & Service Development:
• Build RESTful and GraphQL APIs for e-commerce, order management, inventory, pricing, and promotions.
• Database Management:
• Design efficient schemas and optimize performance across SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• Integration Development:
• Implement and maintain integrations with ERP (SAP B1, ERPNext), CRM, logistics, and third-party systems.
• System Performance & Reliability:
• Write scalable, secure, and high-performance code to support real-time retail operations.
• Collaboration:
• Work closely with frontend, DevOps, and product teams to ship new features end-to-end.
• Testing & Deployment:
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability improvements.
• Continuous Improvement:
• Participate in architecture discussions and propose improvements to scalability and code quality.

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

• 3–5 years of hands-on backend development experience in Node.js, Python, or Java.
• Strong understanding of microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with databases such as MySQL/PostgreSQL (SQL) and MongoDB/Redis (NoSQL).
• Hands-on experience with AWS / GCP and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, and code review workflows.
• Good understanding of API security, data protection, and authentication frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Nice to Have

• Experience in e-commerce or omnichannel retail platforms.
• Exposure to ERP / OMS / WMS integrations.
• Familiarity with GraphQL, Serverless, or Kafka / RabbitMQ.
• Understanding of multi-brand or multi-country architecture challenges.

Responsible for developing, enhancing, modifying, and maintaining chatbot applications in the Global Markets environment. The role involves designing, coding, testing, debugging, and documenting conversational AI solutions, along with supporting activities aligned to the corporate systems architecture.

You will work closely with business partners to understand requirements, analyze data, and deliver optimal, market-ready conversational AI and automation solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, debug, and maintain chatbot and virtual agent applications
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define and translate requirements into technical solutions
• Analyze large volumes of conversational data to improve chatbot accuracy and performance
• Develop automation workflows for data handling and refinement
• Train and optimize chatbots using historical chat logs and user-generated content
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture and best practices
• Document solutions, workflows, and technical designs clearly

Required Skills

• Hands-on experience in developing virtual agents (chatbots/voicebots) and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Experience with one or more AI/NLP platforms such as:
• Dialogflow, Amazon Lex, Alexa, Rasa, LUIS, Kore.AI
• Microsoft Bot Framework, IBM Watson, Wit.ai, Salesforce Einstein, Converse.ai
• Strong programming knowledge in Python, JavaScript, or Node.js
• Experience training chatbots using historical conversations or large-scale text datasets
• Practical knowledge of:
• Formal syntax and semantics
• Corpus analysis
• Dialogue management
• Strong written communication skills
• Strong problem-solving ability and willingness to learn emerging technologies

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Understanding of conversational UI and voice-based processing (Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text)
• Experience building voice apps for Amazon Alexa or Google Home
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Agile methodologies
• Ability to design and implement end-to-end pipelines for AI-based conversational applications
• Experience in text mining, hypothesis generation, and historical data analysis
• Strong knowledge of regular expressions for data cleaning and preprocessing
• Understanding of API integrations, SSO, and token-based authentication
• Experience writing unit test cases as per project standards
• Knowledge of HTTP, REST APIs, sockets, and web services
• Ability to perform keyword and topic extraction from chat logs
• Experience training and tuning topic modeling algorithms such as LDA and NMF
• Understanding of classical Machine Learning algorithms and appropriate evaluation metrics
• Experience with NLP frameworks such as NLTK and spaCy

We are looking for a Backend Developer to join our team to build our product and we are looking for out-of-the-box thinkers with the original thought process and lateral thinking.

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

Responsibilities :

- Backend development with Node.js, MongoDB and Typescript.

- Developing and testing flexible, scalable applications.

- Collaborate with Front end developers to produce optimum output.

- Think out of the box, discuss and implement your ideas over the phase.

Required skills :

- 3+ Years of experience in backend development using any programming language

- Strong knowledge in APIs

- Proficient understanding of code

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript and TypeScript
• Knowledge of Node.js and loopback 4 frameworks
• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as React
• 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
• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Responsibilities:

• 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

We are looking for a Staff Engineer who is an expert in Javascript (Node.js). We are looking for engineers who work like owners as you will be tasked with leading the development of one of our 5 major components of the Hatica platform. You will work with experienced engineers and on a modern cloud-native stack built using Javascript (React and Node) and Golang with an in-house real-time data analytics engine on Postgres and Elasticsearch among others.

Experience - 3 - 7 years
Responsibilities

• Build and maintain our backend microservices powering the core of our software platform
• Help your fellow DevOps and junior engineers working on our cloud infrastructure and other components of our product to ensure high code quality and robust architecture.
• Work with your team members to maintain high uptime and reliability of our core backend and APIs

Requirements and Qualifications

• BE/BTech in Computer Science or Engineering
• Minimum of 4 years of experience with backend development
• 3 years of experience with Node.js
• Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
• Understanding of GraphQL
• Ability to write and maintain high quality code
• Understanding of web coding patterns
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture
• Understanding of AWS and cloud-native technologies is highly preferred

Benefits

• Work with the best and brightest on a global cutting-edge SaaS product
• Performance oriented culture built on fairness and inclusivity
• Competitive Compensation
• Flexible work hours
• Fully remote team, work from anywhere

Job Type: Full-time