Technical Lead – Backend

About Root Node

We’re an early-stage startup building intelligent tools for planning, scheduling, and optimization—starting with timetabling and warehouse logistics. Backed by deep domain expertise and a growing customer pipeline, we’re now building our core tech team. This is not just a coding job — it's a chance to build something meaningful from the ground up.

About the job

• Design and implement robust backend systems and APIs using Java or similar backend language and Spring Boot or equivalent frameworks
• Integrate backend services with existing custom ERP systems 
• Work closely with the founder on product architecture, feature prioritization, and go-to-market feedback
• Take full ownership of features — from system design and development to deployment and iterative improvements
• Help shape our engineering culture and technical foundations

You're a Great Fit If You:

• Have 3+ years of experience in backend development
• Are strong in Java or similar languages (e.g., Kotlin, Go, Node.js)
• Have solid experience with Spring Boot or equivalent backend frameworks
• Have integrated with ERP or enterprise systems in production environments
• Are comfortable with both SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
• Understand REST API development, authentication, Docker
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset — you're excited about ownership, ambiguity, and making decisions that shape the product and company
• Want more than just a job — you want to build, solve, and learn rapidly

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• High degree of ownership and autonomy
• Ability to shape the tech and product direction from Day 1
• Transparent and fast decision-making culture
• A builder’s environment — solve real-world problems with real impact

Location: Hybrid (Bangalore Office)

Experience: 3-5 years of relevant experience

Contract Duration: Full Time

Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Technology or Engineering

About Us:

The BHIVE Group is a leader in revolutionizing enterprise-grade managed offices and coworking spaces for enterprises, democratizing investments in Bengaluru. With an extensive network in prime locations of Bengaluru and Mumbai, and expertise in investment, the group redefines commercial real estate and financial services. BHIVE Workspace offers a collaborative ecosystem with over 27+ properties, 46,000 seats, and spread across 1.8 million sq. ft, catering to corporates, MNCs, entrepreneurs, and businesses of all sizes.

Role Summary:

We are seeking a skilled Backend Engineer with a strong foundation in Python and the FastAPI framework. You will be pivotal in developing, implementing, and maintaining the server-side logic of our web applications, APIs, and other software systems. This role involves crafting robust backend solutions that ensure high performance, scalability, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• API Development: Design, develop, and maintain scalable APIs using Python 3.x and FastAPI. Ensure robust data validation, security measures, and error handling.
• Database Management: Utilize ORM libraries to model complex data structures, perform CRUD operations, craft optimized queries, and manage database migrations.
• Authentication and Authorization: Integrate secure authentication and authorization mechanisms to protect sensitive data and ensure secure access.
• System Performance: Monitor and optimize system performance to ensure high availability and scalability. Implement performance tuning strategies and resolve bottlenecks.
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic. Foster a collaborative environment to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
• Code Quality and Testing: Maintain high code quality through comprehensive testing, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests. Adhere to industry standards and best practices.
• Documentation: Ensure clear and concise documentation of the codebase, APIs, and system architecture. Utilize FastAPI's strengths for automatic documentation and dependency injection.
• Innovation: Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in backend development. Embrace new technologies and methodologies to enhance the development process.

Key Competencies:

• Proficient in Python programming with a deep understanding of FastAPI and ORM libraries.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and critical thinking skills.
• Advanced testing proficiency to ensure code reliability and stability.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to leverage FastAPI for automatic documentation, dependency injection, and asynchronous operations.
• Commitment to industry standards and best practices in backend development.

Employee Benefits:

• ESOP Policy: Strong employee-friendly ESOP policy, applicable based on performance.
• Training and Development: Continuous training and development opportunities to enhance your career.
• Networking Opportunities: Access to multiple BHIVE events, providing great opportunities for professional networking.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Including performance-based awards, competitive compensation, health benefits, financial security, and professional development opportunities.

Our Mission:

To be amongst the most loved and admired real estate companies of India by 2033.

Our Vision:

Helping people live a better quality of life through all our initiatives.

Why Choose BHIVE:

• Supportive Environment: We strive to create a supportive and rewarding work environment where employees feel valued, empowered, and motivated to excel.
• Equal Opportunity Employer: BHIVE is committed to diversity, inclusion, and fostering a supportive work environment. We value unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions.
• Growth Opportunities: BHIVE invests in employee development, providing ample opportunities for professional advancement.
• Impactful Work: Joining BHIVE means contributing to a significant impact on the startup ecosystem in India.

Role Responsibilities:

● Analyze business requirements

● Develop and customize Odoo modules

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Integrate Odoo with 3rd Party systems

● Troubleshooting

● Share ideas on how to continuously improve the system and way of working

Requirements:

The desired candidate should have below skills:

● Working knowledge of Python with the Odoo-framework (minimum 3 years experience)

● Should be familiar with the latest versions of Odoo.

● Have experience with Object Oriented programming.

● Have knowledge of PostgreSQL.

● Should have experience with Python unit testing.

● Have experience with setup of interfaces between different systems using API’s.

● Should be familiar with Agile and Scrum methodology.

● Have experience with collaboration tools like Git, Buildout, Jira, Confluence, etc

● Have experience with Linux (Ubuntu)

Job Description:

We are looking for Tech geeks having hands-on experience and in love with building scalable, distributed and large web/mobile products and tech solutions. He/She must be an excellent problem solver with passion to self-learn and implement web technologies (frontend + backend). He/She would be responsible for the architecture design, code review, and technology build and deployment activities of the product. 

    Responsibilities:-

• Own the product development from scratch.
• Architect scalable, distributed and large-scale web and mobile solutions from scratch.
• Code for fresh development and to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
• Able to learn & implement new technology/framework/library at God Speed.
• Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams and be able to multitask.
• Experience and knowledge of open-source tools and frameworks, broader cutting edge technologies around server side development. 

   Desired Candidate Profile:-

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field(or combined with related experience)
• Strong Expertise in Node.js/Javascript
• Hands-on experience in writing Node.js applications
• Deep knowledge of Restful APIs, Web Services, command-line programs and solid design principles.
• Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks like Express.js,Sails.js,StrongLoop, Meteor,Loopback.js, etc
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database(MongoDB)
• Knowledge of tools like Docker, Git, Postman, JSdocs, etc.
• Well versed with front-end technologies - HTML5, and CSS3, AWS, GCP, Azure, Good hold on CLI command, OS
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages, both dynamic(Javascript, Python, Ruby, etc.) and strongly typed object-oriented language.
• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoys challenging assignments in a high energy, fast growing and start-up workplace.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

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You will also get involved in constant discussions with our Lead Developer and Operational team members regarding the ideas, concepts as well as feature specifications to further enhance our platform.

Key Responsibilities and Scope

• Delivering well tested, high quality software
• High scalability and flexibility solutions using micro services
• Work well in teams (bonus points if able to lead)
• Qualifications and experience
  
  

Highly Favored Experience

• Experience with Solidity
• Web3 JS experience
• Good software engineering skills, insights, and experience
• Good knowledge of cryptography
• Important: Ability to communicate (orally and verbally) well with the team in English
• Experience in building large-scale apps like Social Media, E-commerce, etc. where performance, scalability, and availability are the top priorities
  
  

Qualifications and Experience location GMT+8 or GMT+5:30

• Ability to work remotely or on-site (if Malaysia)
• More than 3 years of experience with Node JS (Express framework)
• Hands-on experience with front-end framework is a bonus (React JS/Angular JS /Vue JS)
• More than 3 years of experience with experience with MongoDB
• Experience in leading, or being a Senior in the backend team to build, constantly improve and optimize a commercial level product, with a decent user base
• Passion for best design, developing and coding practices
• Creating servers and databases for functionality
• Maximizing application performance, uptime, and scalability, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Unit/integration testing experience

• Manage and improve the engineering process continuously and make sure the team delivers the quality code with zero-waste.
• Should provide technical leadership to major projects, but also build and manage a team of 5-8 top-notch engineers.
• Should do sprint planning and run daily stand-ups and deliver 100% hit rate.
• Maintain the legacy code base and reduce tech debt on a continuous basis.
• Able to handle multiple projects and deliver with stringent timelines without compromising the code quality.
• Work with the product team for roadmap planning and delivery as per the plan.
• Conduct sprint planning & sizing, engineering grooming, daily stand-ups, and deliver with zero spillovers.
• Prepare & publish sprint reports to the leadership team and provide visibility to stakeholders.
• Hire and mentor junior/ senior team and make them engineering champions.
• Mentor the engineering team with your technical skills to write scalable, generic, reusable code.
• Develop and Coach engineers on the team, share engineering pointers, conduct regular 1-1s with the team, and help them advance in their careers.

Requirements

• Having work experience in a Product organization with 7 -10 yrs also in leading a cross-functional engineering team that includes API Development and Backend & Middleware development.
• Should have experience in the continuous delivery process. Ship new features and improvising the code base continuously.
• Should have involved in setting up engineering process.
• Must have experience in microservices and distributed patterns.
• Must have worked on high traffic and throughput application.
• Must have prior experience in handling mid to large-size projects.
• Must have worked on high traffic and throughput application.
• Should have managed and lead the engineering team of Web App and Backend development teams.
• Must-Have Experience in Python programming & Postgressql/ Nosql (MongoDB as a data store.
• Must have experience in modern back-end tech stacks (Django, Postgress, NoSQL) and cloud design & deployment patterns.
• Must be conversant with AWS, Docker/Kubernetes
• Should be good with design patterns and integration patterns.
• Should have knowledge/ experience in concurrent programming & distributed locks.
• Requires solid understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up.
• Should have handled multiple epics, themes, and experience of delivering high-quality projects on time.
• Should have managed end to end development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Responsibilities:

• Resolve complex technical issues and make design decisions to meet the critical requirements of scalable, highly available, multi-tenant enablement of services in the cloud.
• Independently investigate, present options, review and implement completely new functionality OR re-architect an existing solution to meet growing needs
• You will work closely with other development teams, product management, UX, and QA to define and implement a new product offering while ensuring continued functionality.
• Work with various external (application) teams to integrate with the product and help guide the integration.
• You will implement solutions that include database schema, business logic, and some presentation layer work.
• You will use existing methods and best practices in the software industry to create features and platforms with the highest levels of security, reliability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Experience mentoring senior developers.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in software development experience with a proven track record of making technical decisions
• 8+ years of experience in coding in more than one programming language, e.g. Python, GoLang, node.js, etc
• Intimate working understanding of modern web applications from the database to browser
• Intimate understanding of MongoDB and extensive experience with database-driven applications
• Great problem-solving skills and ability to abstract functional requirements
• Excellent communicator in both technical and non-technical contexts
• Experience designing and improving complex software applications
• Experience coaching and mentoring developers at various levels of experience
• You have a sound understanding of programming fundamentals & their application to highly scalable web-based systems.
• You have successfully led a small agile team.