Job Summary:

- We are seeking experienced Senior Backend Engineers (Golang/Node.js) with 8–12 years of backend development experience to design, develop, and operate scalable, event-driven microservices.

Employment Details:

- Employment Type: Full-time
- Number of Positions: 3
- Work Mode: Hybrid – 3 days per week
- Work Location: Chennai – Siruseri or Olympia Tech Park, Guindy
- Notice Period: Immediate to 7 days from the date of the offer

Key Responsibilities:

- Translate business requirements into clear specifications, API contracts, and implementation plans before coding.
- Design and build Go or Node.js microservices using REST, gRPC, and Kafka-based event-driven flows.
- Own non-functional requirements, including performance, reliability, observability, and security.
- Critically review AI-generated code and specifications and write tests that validate implementation against the specification.
- Mentor junior developers and improve engineering quality through code reviews.
- Take features from specification to production with minimal supervision.

Required Technical Skills:

- 8+ years of backend development experience,



including at least 3 years of production experience in Go or Node.js, with working proficiency in the other.
- Strong knowledge of concurrency, asynchronous programming, and error handling in the primary language.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or equivalent messaging systems, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker/Kubernetes or OpenShift.
- Experience operating production services, including incident debugging, performance tuning, and monitoring.
- Experience writing design documents, RFCs, or technical specifications before implementation.
- Ability to critically review and correct AI-generated code.
- Demonstrated ability to learn new tools and workflows quickly.
- Solid written communication skills.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- OAuth2/Keycloak experience.
- Experience with AI coding tools such as Copilot or Claude, or with spec/design-doc-driven workflows.

Resumes should be shared with [email protected]

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Kumaran Systems
📍 Chennai