Founding Engineer - NodeJS Developer | Only IIT/NIT/BITS

Univlane is an AI-first SaaS platform redefining how universities engage, convert, and support students worldwide. Backed by the decades-long expertise of KC Overseas Education Pvt. Ltd., we combine deep domain knowledge with modern AI engineering to solve one of the worlds highest-volume, highest-intent communication challenges.

Founding Engineer

What Problem do we solve

• Many universities and study-abroad agencies struggle with high volume of enquiries, delayed responses, manual workload and inconsistent communication. Univlane aims to automate and standardize that ideally improving lead capture, reducing drop-offs, and increasing throughput.
• For global education, where students come from diverse backgrounds, multilingual and culturally intelligent communication helps, Univlane tries to address that.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Build, optimise, and scale backend services using

  Node.js

  , TypeScript, NestJS.
• Architect backend systems, APIs, and microservices for high performance and reliability.
• Design efficient data models, storage solutions, and caching layers for performance.
• Own end-to-end feature delivery architecture development deployment monitoring.
• Improve system availability, reliability, and observability through monitoring & logging tools.
• Collaborate closely with product, frontend, design, and founding leadership teams.
• Take deep ownership of code quality, reviews, testing, and deployment processes.
• Mentor future team members and shape the engineering culture at Univlane.
  

What We Are Looking For

• 47 years of backend development experience (Tier-1 talent preferred)
• Strong hands-on expertise in

  Node.js, Express or NestJS, JavaScript/TypeScript

• Solid understanding of

  API design, REST, microservices, authentication, security, rate limiting

  .
• Strong experience with

  databases (MongoDB or PostgreSQL)

  and query optimization.
• Good knowledge of

  queues (RabbitMQ/Kafka)

  , caching (Redis), containerization (Docker).
• Ability to design scalable architectures and write clean, maintainable code.
• Experience with AWS/GCP or any cloud platform.