Sr. Node.JS Developer

Experience: 7-9 years of overall experience, with 5+ years of relevant backend engineering experience
Primary Skills: Node JS, Typescript, AWS, Backend Application Development

Secondary Skills: Java, React, MySQL

Role Summary
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, distributed systems, microservices, and AWS cloud technologies .
The engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, scaling, and supporting highly available backend services and APIs for customer-facing applications. The role requires strong ownership of backend architecture, application performance, production reliability, security, observability, and cloud-native engineering practices.
Experience with React frontend development and/or Java/Spring Boot is beneficial but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and RESTful APIs using Node.js and TypeScript .
• Build reliable, secure, and highly available microservice-based and distributed applications .
• Design and implement efficient data models and access patterns using Amazon DynamoDB .
• Build cloud-native and event-driven backend solutions using AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, S3, SQS, API Gateway, and CloudWatch .
• Develop asynchronous processing workflows, background jobs, integrations, and messaging-based architectures.
• Define backend architecture, service boundaries, API contracts, data flows, and relationships between distributed components.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex customer-facing and production issues across backend services and cloud infrastructure.
• Proactively identify and address issues related to performance, scalability, stability, security, availability, and extensibility .
• Participate actively in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and code reviews.
• Ensure backend services meet defined standards for performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and quality.
• Write automated unit, integration, API, and service-level tests .
• Monitor and troubleshoot production applications using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
• Maintain high availability and demonstrate strong ownership of customer trust and production reliability.
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines , automated testing, containerization, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with product managers, quality engineers, architects, and globally distributed engineering teams.
• Work in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
• Take end-to-end ownership of backend features throughout the complete software development lifecycle, from technical design and implementation through deployment and production support.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to backend engineering standards, development practices, and architectural guidelines.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7-9 years of overall software engineering experience , with at least 5 years of strong backend development experience .
• Strong hands-on programming experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript .
• Strong experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, backend services, and microservice-based applications .
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented principles, software design patterns, and architectural principles .
• Experience designing scalable and maintainable distributed backend systems.
• Hands-on experience with Amazon DynamoDB , including:
  Partition key and sort key design
  Global and local secondary indexes
  Query and access-pattern-based data modelling
  Performance and scalability considerations
• Strong experience developing cloud-native applications using AWS services such as:
  ECS
  Lambda
  S3
  SQS
  API Gateway
  CloudWatch
• Experience building asynchronous, queue-based, and event-driven processing workflows.
• Experience developing scalable, secure, resilient, and highly available applications .
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Jest, Mocha, or equivalent backend testing frameworks .
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD platforms .
• Experience using Git-based source-control and development workflows.
• Strong understanding of application monitoring, debugging, observability, incident troubleshooting, and production-support practices.
• Good understanding of API security, authentication/authorization, error handling, resiliency, and backend performance optimization.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Skills
Primary Skills - Must-have

• Node.js
• TypeScript and JavaScript
• Backend application development
• RESTful APIs and microservices
• Distributed systems and service-oriented architecture
• AWS ECS, Lambda, S3, SQS, API Gateway, and CloudWatch
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Event-driven and asynchronous application design
• Docker
• CI/CD pipelines
• Unit and integration testing
• Production troubleshooting and application observability
• Backend performance, scalability, security, and reliability

Secondary Skills - Good-to-have

• Java and Spring Boot
• React
• HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript frontend development
• MySQL or PostgreSQL
• Redis or Amazon ElastiCache
• AWS Step Functions, SNS, EventBridge, IAM, and EC2
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
• Kubernetes
• NestJS or Express.js
• OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Datadog, or similar observability tools
• Experience with messaging, event streaming, or distributed workflow platforms

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