Back End Developer

AlmaBay; Chandigarh; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

AlmaBay is seeking a backend engineer to own features end-to-end—from schema design to API implementation and production support. You’ll build in a codebase focused on multi-tenancy, scoped authorization, and AI-driven workflows.

You will design APIs on a PostgreSQL data layer, implement robust authorization, and integrate with payments, identity providers, and government services. You’ll also work with AI features and participate in architecture discussions.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional Node.js development with production NestJS experience.
• Strong PostgreSQL: schema design, query optimization, indexing, transactions.
• Advanced authorization patterns beyond simple roles (scoped permissions, hierarchical roles).
• Experience with async workflows: message queues, background jobs, event-driven patterns.
• Redis for caching, sessions, and rate limiting.
• Writing and maintaining test suites (unit and integration).
• Production experience: reading logs, debugging live issues, shipping with ownership.
• Git-based collaboration, code reviews, clear PR descriptions.
• Strong written English for design notes and docs.

Responsibilities

• Build Node.js/NestJS backends on PostgreSQL data layer.
• Design/APIs for multi-tenant data isolation.
• Develop scoped-permission authorization systems.
• Integrate with payments, identity, comms, and gov services.
• Implement async workflows with queues and workers.
• Orchestrate AI features via provider APIs.
• Write tests, review code, contribute to architecture.
• Support production: read logs, debug incidents, own fixes.

Skills

Node.js

NestJS

PostgreSQL

Authorization

Async workflows

Redis

Testing

Git workflow

Documentation

Tools

BullMQ

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Docker

OpenAPI

Job description

We're looking for a backend engineer who can take real ownership of features and modules end-to-end - from schema design to API implementation to production support. You'll work in a codebase built around multi-tenancy, scoped authorization, and AI-driven workflows, and contribute to architectural decisions within the direction set by our senior engineers.

The work is technically substantial. You'll spend time on genuinely hard problems: multi-tenant data isolation, permission systems that go beyond simple role checks, integrations with government systems that Indian institutes are required to use, and backend services that support AI-powered features.

What you'll do

• Build backend services in Node.js and NestJS against a PostgreSQL data layer
• Design and implement APIs that serve multiple tenants with logically isolated data
• Work on authorization systems - scoped role assignments, permission caching, audit logging
• Integrate with external systems including payment gateways, identity providers, communication platforms, and government services
• Build async workflows using message queues and background workers
• Contribute to backend services that orchestrate AI features (working with LLMs via provider APIs)
• Write tests, review code, participate in architecture discussions
• Support production systems used by real customers - read logs, debug incidents, own the fixes

Required experience

• 3-5 years of professional Node.js development, with production NestJS experience
• Strong PostgreSQL: schema design, query optimization, indexing, transactions
• Solid understanding of authorization patterns beyond simple role checks (scoped permissions, hierarchical roles, or equivalent complexity)
• Experience with async workflows - message queues, background jobs, event-driven patterns (BullMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Pub/Sub)
• Redis for caching, sessions, and rate limiting
• Writing and maintaining test suites (unit and integration)
• Production experience: comfortable reading logs, debugging live issues, owning what you ship
• Git-based collaborative workflow, code review discipline, clear PR descriptions
• Strong written English - you'll write design notes, PR descriptions, and technical documentation

Strongly preferred (any two of these)

• Multi-tenant SaaS experience - you should have opinions on schema-per-tenant vs database-per-
• Shipped features integrating with LLMs in production (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or equivalent)
• Worked in a regulated domain (ed-tech, fintech, healthcare) where compliance affects data modeling
• Comfortable with modular monolith architecture and microservices

Nice to have

• pgvector or another vector database
• Docker and containerized deployments
• Cloud platforms (GCP preferred, AWS or Azure acceptable)
• Prior exposure to Indian regulatory frameworks (DPDP, UGC compliance, DigiLocker integrations)
• Experience generating API type definitions from OpenAPI specs, or publishing internal npm packages for cross-repo type sharing

Who thrives in this role

• Engineers who want architectural depth without waiting years to earn it
• People who take ownership seriously - you're responsible for what you ship, including how it behaves in production
• Engineers who care about code that other people have to read, not just code that works
• Anyone who wants to work on AI-integrated backends before it becomes standard everywhere.