Zunpulse SDE I- Python Developer

Job Title : Senior Backend Developer (Node.js + AWS + MongoDB)

Experience : 4+ Years

Location : Andheri, Mumbai (Work From Office)

About the Role :

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Backend Developer with strong expertise in Node.js (NestJS), AWS, and MongoDB to join our growing engineering team.

This role requires someone who takes ownership, is proactive, and enjoys building scalable, high-performance backend systems in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities :

• Architect, design, and develop scalable backend services using Node.js (NestJS).
• Design and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS Services (EC2, ECS, RDS, Lambda, etc.).
• Develop and maintain high-performance database solutions using MongoDB.
• Work with Kafka, Docker, and serverless frameworks (SST) for efficient deployments.
• Optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability across services.
• Ensure application security, best practices, and compliance standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust product features.
• Take end-to-end ownership of features from design to deployment.

Technical Requirements :

• 4+ years of backend development experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Node.js.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS.
• Strong experience with NestJS framework.
• Solid experience with MongoDB and database design.
• Experience with Kafka, Docker, and serverless architecture.
• Understanding of system design, scalability, and performance optimization.

Good to Have (Bonus Skills) :

• Experience with Python or other backend languages.
• Exposure to Agentic AI use cases or implementations.
• Strong understanding of security best practices.

What We’re Looking For :

• Curious mindset and eagerness to learn new technologies.
• Proactive problem solver with strong ownership attitude.
• Strong team player with effective communication skills.
• Positive, energetic, and passionate about building great systems.

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Backend Engineer proficient in Java to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have 4-7 years of hands-on experience in Java development, particularly in building robust backend systems and microservices architecture. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy scalable and efficient backend solutions to support our products and services.

Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend systems and microservices using Java.
2. Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
3. Implement best practices in software development, including code reviews, testing, and documentation.
4. Optimize and refactor existing codebase for improved performance, scalability, and maintainability.
5. Troubleshoot and debug issues in production environments and provide timely resolutions.
6. Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies to propose innovative solutions and improvements.
7. Mentor junior engineers and contribute to their professional growth and development.
8. Participate in agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
2. 4-7 years of professional experience in backend development with a focus on Java.
3. Strong proficiency in Java programming language and its ecosystem.
4. Experience with building scalable and distributed systems using microservices architecture.
5. Proficiency in Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, etc.).
6. Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
7. Experience with RESTful API design and implementation.
8. Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
9. Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.
10. Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
11. Strong communication and collaboration skills.
12. Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.
13. Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
2. Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
3. Knowledge of reactive programming frameworks like Akka or Vert.x.
4. Familiarity with message broker systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
5. Contributions to open-source projects or active participation in the developer community.

We are on a mission to enable businesses to build agile and accountable technology teams that can deliver results in a secure and scalable way. You will be working in one such technology team for our clients across the world.

• Collaborate with front-end and back-end developers and designers to build website following client requirements

• Create clear, simple, and reusable code

• Develop all server-side logic, including data storage to optimize website performance

• Identify programming bottlenecks and bugs and find fixes

• Test, update and validate web applications to be used on different web browsers

• Execute automated testing platforms and system tests

• BSc/BE/BTech in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

• At least 2+ years of experience with JavaScript and Node.js

• Hands-on expertise in REST, MySQL/PostgreSQL, WebSocket, MongoDB, Redis, etc.

• Familiarity with Docker and AWS infrastructure

• Understanding of data security principles

• Proficiency in JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks

• Strong analytical and problem-solving aptitude skills

• Research, design and build highly reliable, available, and scalable platforms.
• Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead by example, mentor, and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly
• Working with a cross-discipline team (Design, Product, Engineer, Operations, Sales, Marketing).
• Active participation in the hiring process to bring quality engineers in the team. 
• Lead-out team meetings, stand-ups, and architecture/design discussions
• Writing bug-free code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope, and creating high-quality documentation supporting the design/coding tasks
• Identify areas of improvement in our frameworks, tools, processes and strive to make them better.
• Researching new technologies and adapting them to BeyondSkool’s requirements
• Own and commit to all your work, and be accountable for your results
• Using and understanding code from Open-Source projects
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people
• Produce highly reliable systems that are thoroughly tested and benchmarked.
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric infrastructure that operates 24x7
• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, and deliver with speediness and quality.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any other relevant field.
• Experience of 5 - 7 years as a back-end engineer preferably in a microservice environment.
• Strong proficiency of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express.js
• Strong proficiency in Javascript and TypeScript

• Must have worked building 2+ backend system using node.js and Express.js
• Strong understanding and experience of creating highly scalable and complex database design.
• Good understanding of Data Modeling using RDBMS and NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis) data stores
• Strong problem-solving skills with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Experience of creating highly scalable, fault tolerant, resilient distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of creating scalable system design and good understanding of microservice based architectures
• Understanding of caching enabled, PubSub and event driven architectures
• Hands on experience and good knowledge of AWS services
• Understanding automated testing platforms like selenium and unit tests like Chai, Mocha, Jasmine etc
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Curiosity to explore the cutting-edge technologies and bake them in the products.
• Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.

Your Qualifications:

 7 to 12 years of experience with majority as Java engineer

 Strong hands on experience on building application using technologies Java, Spring, Hibernate, Maven/Gradle.

 Experience in building Micro Services using Spring Boot / Go.

 Strong knowledge and experience with SQL queries and databases like Postgre SQL/Oracle.

 Strong knowledge and experience on Platform components such as Docker, Kubernetes and Service Mesh (Istio).

 Good knowledge of scripting languages (preferably Python and Bash)

 Familiarity with CI/CD environment (Jenkins).

 Experience on Observability stack such as ELK Stack, Prometheus & Grafana would be added advantage.

 Should have experience on Active MQ based async queuing system design and deployment.

 Strong experience of system design and implementation of end-to-end integrated systems.

 Familiarity with Hazelcast and Zk Solution would be a plus.

 Strong skills to write technical design documentation.

 Experience of leading a team as tech lead.

 Ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as independently.

 Good communication skills with tech/non-tech people.

What You'll Do:

 Assigned to software development projects and/or system enhancements as tech lead.

 Be engaged in a whole process of development project (requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing/verification, deployment, operation/maintenance).

 Work closely with project manager and other engineers. Some of them are in different locations such as Japan and Singapore.

 Always improve the design quality, code quality, testing quality and system quality spontaneously. In addition, create such a culture in our team.

 Understand business needs and user behavior and develop solutions to those needs.

 Develop and maintain a deep understanding of our systems and propose system improvements.

 Guide and support less-experienced members as mentor and role model to improve the team productivity and achieve team’s goals together.

Better to Have:

 Familiarity with Telecom Service Provider’s Billing Ecosystem/BSS Systems.

 Familiarity with and experience on Cloud Native Technologies.

 Familiarity with Agile Software development process.

 Familiarity with and experience on Linux/Unix environment

 Work experience with a remote team

 Familiarity with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence, HipChat)

 Familiarity with source control system (Gitlab, SVN, etc.)

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU:

You'll benefit from our network of global communities and collaborative culture that will help you build technical and functional skills and capabilities. And because we serve more than 28 countries industries globally, you'll have the opportunity to develop valuable industry-specific expertise.

The scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the unique way we innovate, operate and deliver value will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest technology trends. You'll have access to leading-edge technology.

Job description

We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application.

Responsibilities:

Have the passion and experience for building responsive, elegant and engaging experiences with future friendly web technologies

Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic

Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code with proper documentation

Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications

Implementation of security and data protection

Integration of data storage solutions

Continually keep yourself and your design team updated with the latest changes in your industry’s standards

Requirements

1+ years Experience

Strong proficiency with JavaScript

Knowledge of Node.js, Express.js and other frameworks required to create a scalable and effective application

Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

Good understanding of basics of SQL and/or NoSQL databases

Very strong understanding of working with at least one SQL or NoSQL database in node js(Without ORM preferably)

Understanding of commonly used node modules

Good understanding of server-side templating languages

Good understanding of server-side CSS pre-processors such as SASS, LESS, etc.

Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3

Understanding accessibility and security compliance

User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments using OpenID, OAuth2.0, etc.

Creating secure and scalable APIs using standards like REST API, GraphQL, etc.

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 optimising output to match the specific platform

Creating database schemes that represent and support business processes

Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GIT Critical thinker and problem-solving skills Team player Good time-management skills Great interpersonal and communication skills.

Data Platform engineering at Uber is looking for a strong Technical Lead (Level 5a Engineer) who has built high quality platforms and services that can operate at scale. 5a Engineer at Uber exhibits following qualities: 

• Demonstrate tech expertise › Demonstrate technical skills to go very deep or broad in solving classes of problems or creating broadly leverageable solutions. 
• Execute large scale projects › Define, plan and execute complex and impactful projects. You communicate the vision to peers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate across teams › Domain resource to engineers outside your team and help them leverage the right solutions. Facilitate technical discussions and drive to a consensus.
• Coach engineers › Coach and mentor less experienced engineers and deeply invest in their learning and success. You give and solicit feedback, both positive and negative, to others you work with to help improve the entire team.
• Tech leadership › Lead the effort to define the best practices in your immediate team, and help the broader organization establish better technical or business processes.

What You’ll Do

• Build a scalable, reliable, operable and performant data analytics platform for Uber’s engineers, data scientists, products and operations teams.
• Work alongside the pioneers of big data systems such as Hive, Yarn, Spark, Presto, Kafka, Flink to build out a highly reliable, performant, easy to use software system for Uber’s planet scale of data. 
• Become proficient of multi-tenancy, resource isolation, abuse prevention, self-serve debuggability aspects of a high performant, large scale, service while building these capabilities for Uber's engineers and operation folks.

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years experience in building large scale products, distributed systems in a high caliber environment.
• Architecture: Identify and solve major architectural problems by going deep in your field or broad across different teams. Extend, improve, or, when needed, build solutions to address architectural gaps or technical debt.
• Software Engineering/Programming: Create frameworks and abstractions that are reliable and reusable. advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, and are happy to learn more. Our core languages are Java, Python, Go, and Scala.
• Platform Engineering: Solid understanding of distributed systems and operating systems fundamentals such as concurrency, multithreading, file systems, locking etc.
• Execution & Results: You tackle large technical projects/problems that are not clearly defined. You anticipate roadblocks and have strategies to de-risk timelines. You orchestrate work that spans multiple teams and keep your stakeholders informed.
• A team player: You believe that you can achieve more on a team that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others’ candid feedback for continuous improvement.
• Business acumen: You understand requirements beyond the written word. Whether you’re working on an API used by other developers, an internal tool consumed by our operation teams, or a feature used by millions of customers, your attention to details leads to a delightful user experience.