Sr. SDE - Backend

Job description
We're looking for passionate and self-driven Backend Software Engineers who can combine technical depth with strategic product thinking. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with modern backend stacks, brings strong critical thinking to the table, and can balance short-term delivery with long-term technical vision.

Responsibilities:
• Build scalable and reliable backend services and APIs that power the product.
• Design, implement, and maintain databases, ensuring data integrity, security, and efficient retrieval.
• Implement the core logic that makes applications work, handling data processing, user requests, and system operations.
• Contribute actively to system architecture, proposing enhancements and leading design discussions for new features and services.
• Working closely with product managers and designers to turn ideas into reality and shape the product roadmap.
• Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and security.
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies and frameworks, contributing to the advancement of software development practices.
• Drive code quality through writing unit tests, code reviews, and documentation.
• Take ownership of end-to-end feature development from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Mentor junior developers, setting high standards for engineering excellence within the team.

Requirements:
• Extensive (Must have) hands-on experience in JavaScript / TypeScript, backend development using Node.js and Express.js, and database management with MySQL.
• Strong command of JavaScript and understanding of its quirks and best practices.
• Exposure to system design and interest in building scalable, high-availability systems.
• Experience from a high-growth product-based startup is a must-have.
• Ability to think strategically when designing systems, not just how to build, but why.
• Prior work on B2C applications with a focus on performance and user experience.
• Ensure that applications can handle increasing loads and maintain performance, even under heavy traffic.
• Work with complex queries for performing sophisticated data manipulation, analysis, and reporting.
• Knowledge of Sequelize, MongoDB, and AWS would be an advantage.
• Experience in optimizing backend systems for speed and scalability.