Node.js - 2 to 5 years - pune

Role- Backend Developer

Location- Pune (WFO)

Experience- 2 to 5 yrs

Responsibilities

● Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services and REST APIs

using Node.js.

● Take complete ownership of specific features or modules across the product lifecycle.

● Collaborate with frontend developers, QA engineers, and product managers in a

distributed team environment.

● Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality before handoff to Quality

Assurance teams.

● Participate in code reviews and contribute to maintaining high engineering standards

across the team.

● Keep up-to-date with Node.js ecosystem developments, security best practices, and

infrastructure trends.

● Contribute to technical documentation including API specs, design documents, and

runbooks.

Requirements

● 2 to 5 years of professional backend development experience with Node.js.

● Strong proficiency with Node.js and frameworks such as Express.js or Fastify.

● Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles — HTTP methods, status codes,

versioning, and idempotency.

● Good understanding of asynchronous programming — Promises, async/await, and the

Node.js event loop.

● Experience with TypeScript in backend codebases.

● Experience working with SQL databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL) — joins, indexing,

transactions, and query optimisation.

● Familiarity with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.

● Experience with Redis for caching — cache-aside pattern, TTL, and cache invalidation

strategies.

● Familiarity with message queues such as RabbitMQ, BullMQ, or Kafka is desirable.

● Understanding of authentication and authorisation patterns — JWT, OAuth2, and

session management.

● Experience with Git and working in CI/CD environments.

BE in IT or equivalent