Senior Backend Engineer

About the job

Experience: 4.00 + years Salary: INR 2000000-3000000 / year (based on experience) Expected Notice Period: 7 Days Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST) Opportunity Type: Remote Placement Type: Full Time Permanent position(Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: A Series A funded California based Software Development Company) What do you need for this opportunity? Must have skills required: Datadog, New Relic, SQS, CI/CD, GraphQL, MongoDB, Node Js, Redis About The Role We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with deep hands-on experience in MongoDB and its aggregation framework, capable of designing and optimizing large-scale data models and pipelines. The ideal candidate will also bring strong proficiency in Node.js and GraphQL, contributing to scalable backend systems powering our SaaS platform. Key Responsibilities • Design, implement, and optimize complex MongoDB schemas and aggregation pipelines for analytical and transactional use cases. • Build and maintain Node.js services with GraphQL APIs for internal and external integrations. • Ensure system reliability, performance, and security across distributed environments (AWS Beanstalk, EC2, S3). • Collaborate with frontend, QA, and DevOps teams to define API contracts and optimize end-to-end delivery. • Debug and profile backend performance bottlenecks (queries, indexes, memory usage, API response times). • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and internal tools improving developer velocity. Required Skills • MongoDB (Expert Level): Aggregation framework, performance tuning, sharding, indexing strategies, schema design. • Node.js (Advanced): Asynchronous design, modular architecture, worker queues, API scalability. • GraphQL (Proficient): Schema design, resolvers, query optimization, and federation patterns. • Strong debugging skills in production environments with logs and profiling tools. • Solid understanding of cloud environments (preferably AWS). Good to Have • Experience with data-driven SaaS products. • Familiarity with TypeScript, Redis, and message queues (Redis, SQS). • Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and observability tools (Datadog, New Relic).

Requirements

• MongoDB
• Node.js
• GraphQL
• Datadog
• New Relic
• SQS
• CI/CD
• Redis

Preferred Technologies

• MongoDB
• Node.js
• GraphQL
• Datadog
• New Relic
• SQS
• CI/CD
• Redis

About the company

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