Senior Backend Developer (Node.Js / TypeScript)

Experience: 4–7 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Remote

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Backend Developer to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems using Node.Js, TypeScript, and NestJS. You will be responsible for designing and developing backend services, APIs, databases, asynchronous processing systems, integrations, and production-ready solutions. You will work closely with product, frontend, QA, DevOps, and other engineering teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend applications using Node.Js, TypeScript, and NestJS.

- Build and maintain robust RESTful APIs and backend services.

- Design efficient and scalable database schemas and queries using PostgreSQL.

- Implement caching and high-performance data access using Redis.

- Build asynchronous and event-driven systems using at least one messaging or queue technology such as Kafka, BullMQ, or RabbitMQ.

- Design reliable background jobs, queues, retries, scheduled jobs, and failure-handling mechanisms.

- Participate in system architecture, technical design, and scalability discussions.

- Develop clean, reusable, maintainable, secure, and well-tested code.

- Implement authentication, authorization, and role-based access control.

- Integrate with third-party APIs and external services.

- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and improve system reliability.

- Participate in code reviews and maintain high engineering standards.

- Collaborate with frontend, QA, product, and DevOps teams.

- Mentor junior developers and provide technical guidance when required.





- Take ownership of features from technical design through deployment and production support.

REQUIRED SKILLS

- 4–7 years of professional backend development experience.

- Strong hands-on experience with Node.Js.

- Strong proficiency in TypeScript.

- Hands-on experience with NestJS.

- Strong experience with PostgreSQL, including database schema design, SQL, indexing, transactions, and query optimization. (Must Have)

- Strong experience with Redis and practical knowledge of caching strategies. (Must Have)

- Hands-on experience with at least one of the following: Apache Kafka, BullMQ, or RabbitMQ. (Must Have)

- Experience with more than one of Kafka, BullMQ, or RabbitMQ is a strong advantage.

- Strong understanding of RESTful API design, validation, error handling, API versioning, and documentation.

- Experience with Swagger / OpenAPI.

- Experience with ORM tools such as Prisma or TypeORM.

- Good understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.

- Knowledge of authentication and authorization using JWT, OAuth, RBAC, or similar mechanisms.

- Strong understanding of application security and secure coding practices.

- Experience with unit and integration testing, preferably using Jest.

- Strong Git knowledge and familiarity with modern branching workflows.

- Good debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

DEVOPS & CLOUD SKILLS

- Valuable understanding of Docker and containerization.





- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.

- Hands-on familiarity with Microsoft Azure and cloud-based application deployment.

- Understanding of production environments, logging, monitoring, alerting, and application observability.

- Familiarity with Linux environments.

- Knowledge of Nginx or similar reverse proxies is a plus.

NICE TO HAVE

- Experience with more than one messaging or queue technology among Kafka, BullMQ, and RabbitMQ.

- Experience with Kubernetes.

- Experience with Azure services such as Azure App Service, AKS, Azure Container Apps, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, and Azure Monitor.

- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Azure Bicep.

- Experience with GraphQL.

- Experience building multi-tenant SaaS applications.

- Experience in healthcare, fintech, or other systems involving complex business workflows.

- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for an engineer who goes beyond writing APIs and understands how backend systems behave in real-world production environments.

The ideal candidate should be comfortable thinking about:

- Scalability and performance as traffic and data grow.

- Reliable processing of asynchronous jobs and events.

- Duplicate messages, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.

- Database performance, transactions, locking, and concurrency.

- When to use caching and how to keep cached data consistent.

- Designing maintainable microservices and distributed systems.

- Secure deployments and production reliability.

If you are passionate about building scalable backend systems and enjoy solving complex engineering problems, we would love to hear from you.

📌 Senior Backend Developer (Node.Js + Typescript) (India)
🏢 BerryStudio
📍 India