Description
We are looking for a highly skilled and hands-on Senior Node.js Backend Developer with 6–8 years of overall software development experience, including 4–5 years of strong experience in Node.js backend development.
The ideal candidate should have deep knowledge of Node.js architecture, concurrency, event-loop management, PostgreSQL performance optimization, and AWS services. The person will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services.
Experience in the OTT, media, streaming, or digital entertainment domain will be an added advantage.
Experience Required
6–8 years of overall software development experience
Minimum 4–5 years of hands-on Node.js backend development experience
Strong experience developing scalable, production-grade backend applications
Experience working in Agile product-development environments
Requirements
We are looking for a highly skilled and hands-on Senior Node.js Backend Developer with 6–8 years of overall software development experience, including 4–5 years of strong experience in Node.js backend development.
The ideal candidate should have deep knowledge of Node.js architecture, concurrency, event-loop management, PostgreSQL performance optimization, and AWS services. The person will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services.
Experience in the OTT, media, streaming, or digital entertainment domain will be an added advantage.
Experience Required
6–8 years of overall software development experience
Minimum 4–5 years of hands-on Node.js backend development experience
Strong experience developing scalable, production-grade backend applications
Experience working in Agile product-development environments
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js.
Build high-performance REST APIs and microservices.
Develop reusable, maintainable, and well-structured backend components.
Manage Node.js concurrency, asynchronous processing, and event-driven workflows.
Optimize event-loop utilization and identify blocking operations or performance bottlenecks.
Design and optimize PostgreSQL database schemas, queries, indexes, and transactions.
Analyse query execution plans and improve database performance.
Develop and deploy cloud-based backend services on AWS.
Select and use appropriate AWS services based on application and business requirements.
Integrate backend services with databases, third-party APIs, messaging platforms, and other enterprise systems.
Implement secure authentication, authorization, input validation, logging, monitoring, and error-handling mechanisms.
Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
Write unit, integration, and API-level automated tests.
Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, estimations, and architectural decisions.
Work closely with architects, frontend developers, DevOps engineers, QA teams, and product stakeholders.
Support CI/CD pipelines and production deployments.
Mentor junior developers and promote backend engineering best practices.
Mandatory Technical Skills
Node.js
Strong hands-on experience in Node.js backend development
Deep understanding of:
Node.js event loop
Asynchronous programming
Promises and async/await
Concurrency management
Non-blocking I/O
Streams and buffers
Worker threads and child processes
Memory management
Error and exception handling
Experience building scalable REST APIs and microservices
Ability to identify event-loop blocking and application-performance bottlenecks
Experience with JavaScript and preferably TypeScript
Experience with frameworks such as Express.js, NestJS, or Fastify
PostgreSQL
Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL
Database schema and relational-data-model design
SQL query development and optimization
Index creation and optimization
Understanding of different indexing approaches and their appropriate usage
Query execution-plan analysis
Transaction and concurrency management
Joins, views, functions, and stored procedures
Connection pooling and database-performance tuning
Understanding of locking, isolation levels, and deadlock management
AWS
Practical experience developing and deploying applications on AWS
Strong understanding of AWS services and their appropriate usage
Experience with relevant services such as:
EC2
ECS, EKS, or AWS Lambda
API Gateway
RDS for PostgreSQL
S3
CloudWatch
IAM
SQS and SNS
Secrets Manager
Elastic Load Balancing
VPC and basic networking
Knowledge of application scalability, availability, security, monitoring, and cost optimization on AWS
Additional Technical Expectations
Strong understanding of microservices and event-driven architecture
Experience with message queues or event-streaming technologies
Knowledge of caching solutions such as Redis
Understanding of API security, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, authentication, and authorization
Familiarity with Docker and containerized deployments
Understanding of CI/CD practices and tools
Experience with Git-based source-code management
Knowledge of logging, monitoring, and observability practices
Experience with tools such as CloudWatch, ELK, Grafana, or similar platforms
Understanding of backend design patterns and clean-coding principles
Experience in performance testing, profiling, and production troubleshooting
Preferred Skills
Experience in the OTT, media, video-streaming, broadcasting, or digital-entertainment domain
Understanding of OTT workflows, content platforms, subscriber management, playback services, or streaming applications
Experience supporting high-traffic and high-concurrency applications
Knowledge of content-delivery and media-platform integrations
Experience with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code
Familiarity with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
Required Competencies
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Hands-on engineering mindset
Ability to independently own backend components from design through production support
Strong debugging and root-cause-analysis capabilities
Good written and verbal communication skills
Ability to collaborate with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams
Focus on performance, security, scalability, code quality, and maintainability
Educational Qualification
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a hands-on backend engineer who can independently design and build production-grade Node.js services. The person should be comfortable solving concurrency and event-loop performance problems, optimizing PostgreSQL queries and indexes, and selecting the right AWS services for scalable cloud-based solutions.
What we offer
Exciting Projects: We focus on industries like High-Tech, communication, media, healthcare, retail and telecom. Our customer list is full of fantastic global brands and leaders who love what we build for them.
Collaborative Environment: You Can expand your skills by collaborating with a diverse team of highly talented people in an open, laidback environment — or even abroad in one of our global centers or client facilities!
Work-Life Balance: GlobalLogic prioritizes work-life balance, which is why we offer flexible work schedules, opportunities to work from home, and paid time off and holidays.
Professional Development: Our dedicated Learning & Development team regularly organizes Communication skills training(GL Vantage, Toast Master),Stress Management program, professional certifications, and technical and soft skill trainings.
Excellent Benefits: We provide our employees with competitive salaries, family medical insurance, Group Term Life Insurance, Group Personal Accident Insurance , NPS(National Pension Scheme ), Periodic health awareness program, extended maternity leave, annual performance bonuses, and referral bonuses.
Fun Perks: We want you to love where you work, which is why we host sports events, cultural activities, offer food on subsidies rates, Corporate parties. Our vibrant offices also include dedicated GL Zones, rooftop decks and GL Club where you can drink coffee or tea with your colleagues over a game of table and offer discounts for popular stores and restaurants!
About GlobalLogic
GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is a trusted digital engineering partner to the world’s largest and most forward-thinking companies. Since 2000, we’ve been at the forefront of the digital revolution – helping create some of the most innovative and widely used digital products and experiences. Today we continue to collaborate with clients in transforming businesses and redefining industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services.
