Role & responsibilities :

- Take end-to-end ownership of backend services, from requirements gathering and system design to deployment and production support.

- Design and develop scalable, secure, and maintainable backend applications using Node.js and NestJS.

- Architect and implement microservices-based systems and distributed applications.

- Design efficient database schemas and optimize application performance for scale.

- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and asynchronous workflows.

- Translate business requirements into robust and scalable technical solutions.

- Ensure application reliability, performance, and security through industry best practices.

- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions to proactively identify and resolve issues.

- Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.

- Drive engineering best practices, code quality standards, and architectural discussions.

- Conduct code reviews and mentor fellow engineers to maintain high development standards.

- Collaborate closely with product, frontend, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Preferred candidate profile :

- Strong expertise in Node.js and NestJS.

- Extensive experience with TypeORM.

- Strong knowledge of MySQL, including database design, query optimization, indexing strategies, and performance tuning.

- Experience working with NoSQL (MongoDB, etc).

- Strong understanding of System Design principles and distributed systems.

- Hands-on experience designing and building Microservices Architectures.

- Experience building and operating scalable, high-performance applications.

- Hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, S3, SES, SQS, RDS).

- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (ELK Stack, Grafana).

- Hands-on experience with Docker and containerized deployments.

- Strong understanding and practical implementation of SOLID Principles, Design Patterns, and Clean Architecture.

- Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles.

- Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows.

- Ability to independently drive projects and take ownership of backend systems.

- Experience operating and maintaining production systems (performance optimization, observability, troubleshooting, reliability engineering, incident resolution).

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience with Redis and caching strategies.

- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Advanced SQS).

- Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

- Exposure to Kubernetes and container orchestration.

- Experience working in startup or fast-paced product environments.

- Good to have : AI assisted coding, Python, Agentic AI.