Role Overview
You will own Exterview’s backend engine, the foundation powering AI-driven interviews, candidate scoring, hybrid assessment flows, and real-time reporting.
Every candidate evaluation, AI-generated insight, skill analysis, and report generation flows through your services. From microservices to data pipelines, you’ll design and build the backbone that enables scalable, intelligent hiring workflows for enterprises worldwide.
This role goes beyond building APIs you will define system contracts, data models, and scalability patterns that allow Exterview to support tens of thousands of concurrent interviews, assessments, and AI-driven processes with sub-100ms latency.
You’ll work closely with FE, AI, Prompt Engineering, and DevOps teams to ensure the platform’s foundation is secure, high-performance, and resilient.
Execution is managed via Linear (sprints), Notion (PRDs), and GitHub (repos), collaborating across teams to make backend design decisions visible, reproducible, and accountable.
Key Responsibilities
Service Architecture & APIs
- Design, implement,



and maintain Node.js microservices with clean modular boundaries.
- Expose REST/GraphQL endpoints for FE, AI agents, and internal workflows.
- Ensure robust API contracts with versioning and backward compatibility.

Data Modeling & Schemas
- Define schemas for candidates, interviews, assessments, AI insights, and reports.
- Manage graph-based relationships between candidates, jobs, and interviewers using MongoDB
- Ensure data consistency, scalability, and effective querying.

Asynchronous Workflows
- Implement Pub/Sub and task queues for long-running jobs (report generation, AI scoring, skill analysis).
- Orchestrate workflows that integrate AI agents, candidate evaluation, and feedback pipelines.

Commercial & Notifications Layer
- Integrate billing, subscriptions, and transactional notifications via Razor Pay and SendGrid.
- Ensure audit compliance, logging, and secure transaction handling.

Performan

📌 Backend Developer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Exterview
📍 Hyderabad