Senior Backend Engineer

We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer who can build high-performance backend systems using Node.js . You'll work on complex engineering problems, optimize for scale, and own features end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services, APIs, and microservices using Node.js frameworks (Express, Nest.js ).
• Own modules end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Write high-quality, testable, maintainable code.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability across systems.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform RCA, and improve stability.
• Work with databases (SQL and NoSQL), caching, and async processing.
• Collaborate with DevOps for CI/CD, deployments, and automation.
• Contribute to improving engineering standards, documentation, and processes.
  
  

Requirements

• 4 to 6 years of hands-on backend development experience.
• Strong in Node.js, async patterns, TypeScript (preferred), and REST APIs.
• Solid understanding of data modeling queues and background jobs, caching (Redis), and API optimization.
• Experience with relational DBs (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB/MongoDB/Redis).
• Experience with messaging/queues: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with Docker, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to AWS or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong debugging and performance tuning skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment. Here are answers to some questions you may have.
  
  

This job was posted by Sathya Priya from Amura.