Industry : Social Media / Live Streaming / Entertainment

Role Overview :

We are looking for a proficient Node.js Developer to join our development team. You will leverage your backend expertise to build scalable, real-time, high-performance applications and distributed systems for our products.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, build, and maintain server-side applications and APIs using Node.js.

- Develop real-time features using WebSockets and event-driven architectures.

- Integrate databases, caching systems, and third-party services.

- Optimize backend performance, reliability, and scalability.

- Implement business logic, data storage, and server-side processing.

- Ensure code quality through testing, reviews, and best practices.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in Agile environments.

Must-have Technical Skills :

- Strong proficiency in Node.js with good coding practices (modular design, asynchronous programming, error handling, design patterns).

- Hands-on experience with NestJS and Express.js frameworks.

- Strong understanding of REST APIs, authentication and authorization mechanisms (JWT, OAuth, RBAC).

- Strong understanding of WebSockets, real-time communication, event-driven systems, and real-time APIs.

- Experience with PostgreSQL/MySQL including query optimization, indexing, transactions, schema design, and performance tuning.

- Hands-on experience with Redis for caching, Pub/Sub, session management, and rate limiting.

- Experience with BullMQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar queueing technologies.

- Experience building scalable and high-performance backend systems.

- Understanding of microservices and distributed systems.

- Unit and integration testing using Jest, Mocha, or Chai.

- Git version control and code review practices.

- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

- Security best practices for backend systems including input validation, encryption, authentication, and authorization.

- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Nice-to-have :

- GraphQL experience.

- Serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions).

- Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and containerization.

- CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI.

- Monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).

- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

- Jira, Trello, and Confluence.

- Experience with OTT, live-streaming, social media, or high-concurrency applications.