Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with strong development capabilities who can handle complex production issues, perform deep debugging, and contribute to backend development. This role will function as a hybrid Development + Production Support position, requiring strong system understanding and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

Development Responsibilities

- Design and develop scalable backend services using Node.js
- Optimize APIs for performance and reliability
- Refactor code to improve maintainability and scalability
- Implement system improvements based on production learnings
- Participate in architecture discussions and technical planning

Production Support (L3)

- Handle complex L3 incidents, RCA, and critical production issues
- Perform deep debugging across distributed systems
- Analyze logs, API failures, DB queries, memory leaks, performance bottlenecks
- Coordinate with DevOps, QA, and product teams during incidents
- Own root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes
- Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

- 6+ years of experience in backend development and production support
- Experience working on scalable, high-traffic systems

- Strong debugging skills across





- Application layer

- Database layer

- API integrations

- Async systems / queues

- Valuable understanding of

- REST APIs

- Microservices architecture

- Caching (Redis preferred)

- SQL databases
- Experience in handling production incidents
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Good to Have

- Strong hands-on experience in Node.js & JavaScript
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Experience with logging/monitoring tools (ELK, Grafana, etc.)

- Exposure to containerized environments (Docker/Kubernetes)

- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines

Behavioral Expectations

- Ownership mindset

- Clear communication during issue resolution

- Strong system thinking approach
- Proactive in identifying potential system risks

Ideal Candidate Profile

- Has worked in product-based or scalable startup environments
- Has handled high-severity production issues
- Can move between debugging and writing production-grade code

- Understands end-to-end system architecture

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