Designation/Role : Backend Developer(Node JS)
Role : Backend Developer(Node JS)
Experience : 3-4 Years
Location : Bangalore
Must Haves - NodeJS, MongoDB/dynamodb.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices using Node.js.
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
- Implement and maintain data storage solutions using NoSQL databases like DynamoDB.
- Ensure the performance, scalability, and security of our backend systems.
- Ability to work on data-driven continuous improvement
- Collaborate with front-end engineers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
- Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to the improvement of our development processes.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in backend development.
[Must-Have]
- 2-3.5 years of experience in backend development.
- Strong understanding of Node.js and experience building RESTful APIs.
- Experience with NoSQL databases, particularly DynamoDB.
- Good understanding of microservices architecture and design patterns.
- Familiarity with unit testing frameworks and best practices.
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Must Have (AI-focused) (FOR BACKEND)
- Ability to use AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Tabnine, Cursor ) for writing, refactoring, and optimising backend code while following clean code principles.
- Skill in prompting AI tools effectively for code generation, debugging assistance, and creating test cases.
- Competence in using AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT/Gemini) for generating UI components, styling, and accessibility improvements.
- Ability to prompt AI tools to generate cross-browser test cases, accessibility reports, and performance optimization suggestions.
Good to Have (AI-focused)
- Experience using AI to automate backend workflows — e.g., generating API documentation, writing SQL queries, or drafting integration scripts.
- Understanding of integrating AI APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Hugging Face, AWS Bedrock) into backend services.
- Familiarity with AI-driven monitoring tools (e.g., for anomaly detection in logs or performance metrics).
- Ability to use AI tools to accelerate research on libraries, frameworks, and performance optimisation strategies.
- Experience integrating AI-powered features in the frontend (e.g., chatbots, search, image recognition widgets) using APIs like OpenAI, Google Vision, or Hugging Face.
- Familiarity with using AI tools for rapid prototyping of UI layouts, component libraries, and UX copywriting.
- Use of AI-based analytics or heatmap tools to improve UX decisions
[Good-Have]
- Experience with Java, Golang, or Python.
- Knowledge of containerisation technologies like Kubernetes.
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS or Google Cloud.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices.
Requirements Skills :
What we need
- Must have] 1-3 years of backend development experience in product engineering organizations.
- [Must have] Good knowledge and experience of backend development in JS stack, node.js in backend, MongoDB/DynamoDB + SQL (MySQL) , Redis , Elasticsearch, Go
- [Must have] Strong software development fundamentals (Data structures, Algorithms, problem solving, systems architecture and development methods
- [Must have] Built RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway
- [Must have] Good understanding of AWS services DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Lambda, Microservices architechture etc.
- [Must have] Strong computer science fundamentals.
Excellent academic background - [Good to have] Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress.
- [Good to have] Experience in early stage tech start-ups
What you would do
- Responsibilities include end-to-end software engineering aspects, Designing and architecting, Development, Testing, Deployment, Debugging production issues and handling production incidents
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