Key Responsibilities :

- Define and drive the overall backend architecture strategy using Node.js, ensuring scalability, security, and long-term maintainability.

- Design, architect, and oversee development of enterprise-grade backend platforms and distributed microservices ecosystems.

- Lead the architecture and governance of GraphQL APIs including schema design standards, performance optimization, federation strategies, and version control.

- Architect scalable, secure, and high-performance microservices aligned with domain-driven design and cloud-native principles.

- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Business stakeholders to translate strategic business objectives into robust technical solutions.

- Drive system performance optimization, reliability engineering, high availability design, and disaster recovery planning.

Establish coding standards, security frameworks, and engineering best practices across teams.

- Lead architecture reviews, conduct high-level code audits, and ensure adherence to enterprise security and compliance requirements.

- Own production stability by defining monitoring, observability, logging, and incident response strategies.

- Mentor senior engineers, technical leads, and engineering managers; build strong technical leadership within the organization.

- Evaluate and integrate third-party platforms, enterprise tools, and external APIs with architectural due diligence.

- Drive modernization initiatives, including legacy transformation, microservices adoption, and cloud migration strategies.

Contribute to technology roadmap planning and long-term engineering strategy.

Required Qualifications :

- 15+ years of overall experience in software development, with 8-10+ years in Node. JS-based backend systems.

- Proven experience architecting large-scale, high-traffic, distributed backend systems.

- Deep expertise in Node.js (Express, NestJS, Fastify, or equivalent frameworks).

- Strong hands-on and architectural experience with GraphQL (Apollo Federation, schema stitching, performance tuning).

- Strong expertise in RESTful API architecture, governance, and enterprise API lifecycle management.

- Extensive experience designing and optimizing relational and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL).

- Advanced knowledge of authentication, authorization, identity management (JWT, OAuth2, SSO, RBAC).

- Experience designing secure systems compliant with industry standards.

- Strong experience translating complex business requirements into scalable technical architectures.

- Excellent stakeholder communication and leadership skills with experience working at executive and cross-functional levels.

Nice to Have :

- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and enterprise-scale codebase management.

- Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP), including cloud-native architecture patterns.

- Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration strategies.

- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps culture, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation).

- Experience with event-driven and message-based architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ).

- Experience in high-growth product environments or enterprise SaaS platforms.

- Exposure to performance engineering, SRE practices, and observability frameworks.

- Experience leading Agile transformations and scaling engineering teams.

Tools & Technologies :

Mandatory Skills :

Node.js, GraphQL Architecture, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST API Design, Microservices Architecture

Nice to Have :

TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, CI/CD, Kafka/RabbitMQ, Infrastructure as Code