Role Overview
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop backend services, APIs, and microservices using Node.js frameworks (Express, Nest.js).
- Own modules end-to-end: design → implementation → testing → 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 & NoSQL), caching, and async processing.
- Collaborate with DevOps for CI/CD, deployments, and automation.
- Contribute to improving engineering standards, documentation, and processes
What We're Looking For
- 4 to 7 years of hands-on backend development experience.
- Strong in Node.js, async patterns, TypeScript (preferred), and REST APIs.
- Solid understanding of: Data modeling Queues & background jobs Caching (Redis) 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
Where is your office
Chennai (Velachery)
Work Model Work from Office – because great stories are built in person!
Do you have an online presence
https://amura.ai (we are @AmuraHealth on all social media)
For better insights: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11UHgXqYc7XSJ3IAdFyEm-EurgOzqsmzA/viewusp=sharing
Skills:- NodeJS (Node.js), NextJs (Next.js), DevOps, API, SQL and NOSQL Databases
