Design, build, and maintain scalable, cloud-native backend services using Node.js and TypeScript. Optimize API performance, concurrency, caching, and PostgreSQL queries. Collaborate on architecture, troubleshoot production issues, drive observability and performance improvements, and document best practices.
Backend Developer – Node.js
Experience: 6+ Years
Location: Chennai
About the Job
We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer – Node.js with 6+ years of experience in cloud-based backend development. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, API development, backend architecture, performance optimization, concurrency, and caching, with experience building resilient, scalable, and high-performing enterprise applications.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript, contributing to enterprise-grade and cloud-native applications.
- Design and optimize API services, applying performance tuning, concurrency management, caching strategies, and resiliency practices to improve scalability and reliability.
- Optimize PostgreSQL performance through query analysis, indexing strategies, efficient data access patterns, and database optimization.
- Collaborate with architects, engineers, and cross-functional teams on solution architecture, technical design, code reviews, frontend integration, and production troubleshooting.
- Drive continuous improvement through root-cause analysis, performance optimization, observability, technical documentation, and engineering best practices.
What We Seek In You
- 6+ years of backend application development experience in cloud-based environments with strong hands-on expertise in Node.js and TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, API design, system design, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
- Proven experience with API performance tuning, concurrency management, caching strategies, scalability, resiliency, and high-availability backend services.
- Advanced hands-on expertise in PostgreSQL, including query performance analysis, index optimization, query refactoring, database design, data modeling, and large-scale data processing.
- Experience building and supporting cloud-native applications, with strong debugging, root-cause analysis, production troubleshooting, and performance optimization capabilities.
- Strong knowledge of load testing, performance benchmarking, application monitoring, observability, logging, and performance management, with AWS cloud exposure as an advantage.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with strong communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and modern cloud-native application development.
- Exposure to load testing, scalability testing, application monitoring, observability, and performance management tools.
- Understanding of frontend integration and API consumption patterns.
Life At Next
At our core, we’re driven by the mission of tailoring growth for our customers by enabling them to transform their aspirations into tangible outcomes. We’re dedicated to empowering them to shape their futures and achieve ambitious goals. To fulfil this commitment, we foster a culture defined by agility, innovation, and an unwavering commitment to progress. Our organizational framework is both streamlined and vibrant, characterized by a hands-on leadership style that prioritizes results and fosters growth.
Perks Of Working With Us
- Clear objectives to ensure alignment with our mission, fostering your meaningful contribution.
- Abundant opportunities for engagement with customers, product managers, and leadership.
- You’ll be guided by progressive paths while receiving insightful guidance from managers through ongoing feedforward sessions.
- Cultivate and leverage robust connections within diverse communities of interest. Choose your mentor to navigate your current endeavors and steer your future trajectory.
- Embrace continuous learning and upskilling opportunities through Nexversity.
- Enjoy the flexibility to explore various functions, develop new skills, and adapt to emerging technologies. Embrace a hybrid work model promoting work-life balance. Access comprehensive family health insurance coverage, prioritizing the well-being of your loved ones.
- Embark on accelerated career paths to actualize your professional aspirations.
Who We Are
We enable high growth enterprises build hyper personalized solutions to transform their vision into reality. With a keen eye for detail, we apply creativity, embrace new technology and harness the power of data and AI to co-create solutions tailored made to meet unique needs for our customers.
Join our passionate team and tailor your growth with us!
TVS Next Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office
Chennai, India
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