Senior Backend Engineer / Lead Backend Engineer – Node.js

Experience:
6+ years

Tech:
Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Express.js

Location:
India |
Work Mode:
Remote

About the Role

We’re looking for a
Senior/Lead Backend Engineer
who enjoys building products, solving complex problems, and taking ownership from idea to execution.

You’ll work in a
lean, high-ownership engineering team
where your technical decisions directly influence the product and customer experience. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about engineering excellence, thinks beyond just writing code, and enjoys building scalable, reliable systems.

What You’ll Do
- Design and build
scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend services and REST APIs
.
- Work extensively with
Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and Express.js
.
- Drive system design, architecture, performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Conduct
PR reviews
, mentor engineers, and raise the bar for engineering quality.
- Optimize APIs, database queries, latency, and overall backend performance.
- Collaborate with
Product, Design,



Engineering, and Leadership
to turn customer problems into impactful solutions.
- Take end-to-end ownership of projects — from understanding the problem to shipping and improving the solution.
- Stay close to the product and customers to understand
what we’re building and why
.

What We’re Looking For
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience
, with previous experience as a Backend Engineer or Lead Backend Engineer.
- Expert-level Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and Express.js
experience — these are non-negotiable.
- 2+ years of technical/team leadership experience
.
- Robust understanding of
system design and scalable backend architecture
.
- Strong SQL and database performance optimization skills.
- Proven experience designing and building
RESTful APIs
.
- Good understanding of
caching
technologies such as Redis or Memcached.
- Hands-on AWS experience with
EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, or SQS
is a pl

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