Role & responsibilities

- Design and build backend services in a microservices architecture
- Work with MongoDB and Redis data stores, making sound choices around data modeling and caching ( any NoSQL, Cache Store)
- Translate product requirements into technical documentation data models, system designs, API specs. Collaborate directly with product and frontend teams to define API contracts
- Deploy and manage services in the cloud, including CI/CD pipelines
- Own observability for your services logging, metrics, tracing
- Write and maintain unit, integration, and API-level tests
- Build and maintain search functionality (full-text/faceted search across core data)
- Integrate third-party APIs and external services into our platform
- Implement and maintain payment gateway integrations, handling transactions securely and reliably

Preferred candidate profile

- 4-7 years of professional experience in backend development,



ideally with Node.js/Express.js
- Strong understanding of REST API design and microservices patterns, Event-driven architecture
- Hands-on experience with MongoDB and Redis (or similar NoSQL/caching stores)
- Experience with a cloud provider (Azure preferred, but AWS/GCP experience transferable) and containerized deployments (Kubernetes/Docker)
- Comfort writing technical documentation able to turn ambiguous product requirements into clear system designs
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Solid testing fundamentals — unit and integration testing, API testing (Jest/Supertest or equivalent)
- Python experience is a plus (FastAPI specifically)
- Comfortable in a startup workplace: shifting priorities, high ownership, minimal hand-holding

📌 Back End Developer (Chennai)
🏢 Kynhood
📍 Chennai