Senior/Lead - Backend Developer

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We're seeking an experienced Senior Backend and Database Developer and Team Lead for our backend team. The ideal candidate will combine technical expertise in full-stack development with extensive experience in backend development, with strong process optimization skills and innovative thinking to drive team efficiency and product quality.


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Key Job Responsibilities

Software architecture design

  • Architect and oversee development of backend in Node
  • Familiarity with MVC and design patterns and have a strong grasp of data structures
  • Basic database theory – ACID vs eventually consistent, OLTP vs OLAP
  • Different types of databases - relational stores, K/V stores, text stores, graph DBs, vector DBs, time series DBs

Database design & structures

  • Experience with data modeling concepts including normalization, normal forms, star schema (management and evolution), and dimensional modeling
  • Expertise in SQL DBs (MySQL, PostgreSQL), and NoSQL DBs (MongoDB, Redis)
  • Data pipeline design based on operational principles. Dealing with failures, restarts, reruns, pipeline changes, and various file storage formats

Backend & API frameworks & other services

  • To develop and maintain RESTful, JSON RPC and other APIs for various applications
  • Understanding of backend JS frameworks such as Express.js, NestJS, and documentation tools like Postman, Swagger
  • Experience with callbacks with Webhooks, callbacks and other event-driven systems, and third-party solution integrations (Firebase, Google Maps, Amplify and others)

QA and testing

  • Automation testing and tooling knowledge for application functionality validation and QA
  • Experience with testing routines and fixes with various testing tools (JMeter, Artillery or others)
  • Load balancers, caching and serving
  • Experience with event serving (Apache Kafka and others), caching and processing (Redux, Apache Spark or other frameworks) and scaling (Kubernetes and other systems)
  • Experience with orchestrators like Airflow for huge data workloads, Scripting and automation for various purposes including scheduling and logging

Production, Deployment & Monitoring

  • Experience of CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins/Circle CI, and Docker for containerization
  • Experience in deployment and monitoring of apps on cloud platforms e.g., AWS, Azure and bare metal configurations

Documentation, version control and ticketing

  • Version control with Git, and ticketing bugs and features with tools like Jira or Confluence
  • Backend documentation and referencing with tools like Swagger, Postman
  • Experience in creating ERDs for various data types and models and documentation of evolving models


Behavioral competencies

Attention to detail

Ability to maintain accuracy and precision in financial records, reports, and analysis, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulations.

Integrity and Ethics

Commitment to upholding ethical standards, confidentiality, and honesty in financial practices and interactions with stakeholders.

Time management

Effective prioritization of tasks, efficient allocation of resources, and timely completion of assignments to meet sprint deadlines and achieve goals.

Adaptability and Flexibility

Capacity to adapt to changing business environments, new technologies, and evolving accounting standards, while remaining flexible in response to unexpected challenges.

Communication & collaboration

Experience presenting to stakeholders and executive teams

Ability to bridge technical and non-technical communication

Excellence in written documentation and process guidelines to work with other frontend teams


Leadership competencies

Team leadership and team building

Lead and mentor a backend and database development team, including junior developers, and ensure good coding standards

Agile methodology to be followed, Scrum meetings to be conducted for sync-ups

Strategic Thinking

Ability to develop and implement long-term goals and strategies aligned with the organization’s vision

Ability to adopt new tech and being able to handle tech debt to bring the team up to speed with client requirements

Decision-Making

Capable of making informed and effective decisions, considering both short-term and long-term impacts

Insight into resource allocation and sprint building for various projects

Team Building

Ability to foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment, promoting trust and cooperation among team members

Code reviews

Troubleshooting, weekly code reviews and feature documentation and versioning, and standards improvement

Improving team efficiency

Research and integrate AI-powered development tools (GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer)


Added advantage points

AI/ML applications

Experience in AI/ML application backend workflows (e.g: MLFlow) and serving the models

Data processing & maintenance

Familiarity with at least one data processing platform (e.g., Spark, Flink, Beam/Google Dataflow, AWS Batch) Experience with Elasticsearch and other client-side data processing frameworks

Understand data management and analytics – with metadata catalogs (e.g., AWS Glue), data warehousing (e.g., AWS Redshift)

Data governance

Quality control, policies around data duplication, definitions, company-wide processes around security and privacy


Interested candidates can share the updated resumes to below mentioned ID.


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