Senior Platform Developers

Job Purpose To design, develop, and enhance components of Vyoma’s proprietary cloud platform and supporting applications, working under the architectural direction of the Lead Developer Architect. The role focuses on high-quality, cloud-native software development, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and production-ready, while adhering to defined architecture, API standards, and engineering best practices.

The Senior Developer will contribute hands-on to core platform services, APIs, and integrations, support automation and DevOps practices, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, enterprise-grade cloud services.

Role Description Key Skills & Technical Competencies Key Responsibilities

Backend Frameworks & Development

• Strong hands-on experience on OpenStack cloud platform with one or more backend frameworks:
• Node.js (NestJS / Express / Fastify)
• Python (FastAPI / Flask)
• Java (Spring Boot / Spring Cloud)
• Experience designing modular, reusable backend components
• Strong understanding of RESTful service design principles

API Design & Documentation

• Expertise in API-first design
• Strong experience with:
• Swagger / OpenAPI specifications
• API versioning and backward compatibility
• Experience ensuring API standards, validation, and consistency

Microservices Architecture

• Strong understanding of microservices-based architecture
• Experience with:
• Service-to-service communication
• Synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns
• Knowledge of scalability, fault tolerance, and resiliency patterns

Database & Data Layer Integration

• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases o Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.)
• Design and develop core backend frameworks and platform modules
• Build and maintain API services used by internal and external consumers
• Develop integrations with supporting tools, platforms, and services
• Ensure high performance, scalability, and reliability of backend systems
• Define and follow API standards, coding standards, and best practices
• Collaborate with UI, DevOps, and architecture teams
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive root cause analysis
• Continuously improve platform architecture and reduce technical debt
• Experience designing efficient data models
• Understanding of transaction management, performance tuning, and caching

Messaging & Event-Driven Systems

• Experience working with message queues and streaming platforms
• Kafka
• RabbitMQ
• Understanding of event-driven architectures
• Experience designing producers, consumers, and retry/error-handling mechanisms

Performance, Security & Reliability

• Experience building high-performance, lowlatency backend services
• Understanding of backend security best practices
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting distributed systems

Experience & Educational Requirements Qualifications and Experience EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: (degree, training, or certification required) BE/B-Tech or equivalent with Computer Science or Electronics & Communication

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: (no. of years of technical, functional, and/or leadership experience or specific exposure required)

• 8–12 years of experience in backend or platform development
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js, Python, or Java-based backend frameworks
• Proven experience building API-driven and microservices-based platforms
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL database integrations
• Experience working with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging platforms
• Strong understanding of scalable, distributed backend systems
• Experience working in cloud-native or containerized environments
• Experience with containerization and Kubernetes
• Exposure to service mesh or API gateway platforms
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Knowledge of distributed tracing and observability tools
• Experience in enterprise or platform engineering environment