Senior Backend Engineer (TypeScript / NestJS)

Menucoster; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Menucoster in Hyderabad is seeking a senior hands-on backend engineer to own substantial features in TypeScript/Node.js within a NestJS environment, translating requirements into production-grade services and APIs.

You will work across costing, nutrition, menus and compliance, design reliable production systems, optimise queries, and collaborate with product, frontend, and data specialists.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining backend services in TypeScript/Node.js.
• Strong ability to own substantial backend features from requirements to production.
• Ability to implement complex business logic, rules, calculations, and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services in TypeScript on Node.js.
• Work in NestJS backend environment and apply modular service patterns.
• Own substantial backend work from requirements through production support and improvement.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

NestJS

API design

Relational databases

Testing & reliability

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

MikroORM

AWS

Valkey

Job description

Help build the backend systems that turn complex foodservice information and rules into trusted operational behaviour.

This is a senior hands-on TypeScript/Node.js backend role in the current NestJS environment, with responsibility for consequential product behaviour from requirement interpretation through production.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and product capabilities in TypeScript on the Node.js runtime.
• Work in the established NestJS backend environment and apply its modular service patterns appropriately.
• Own substantial backend work from requirement interpretation through implementation, testing, release, production support and improvement.
• Implement interconnected rules, calculations, validation and state behaviour across costing, nutrition, allergens, supplier-product relationships, menus, procurement, compliance and related capabilities.
• Design and maintain production APIs, request/response contracts, validation, error behaviour, authentication/authorisation and service integrations.
• Work with relational schemas, constraints, joins, transactions, indexes, migrations, query behaviour and performance.
• Use caching, background jobs, queues or event-driven processing where appropriate, including failure handling, retries and recovery.
• Design proportionate automated tests that protect important rules, calculations, workflows and integrations from regression.
• Use evidence to diagnose production defects, performance issues and reliability problems, and document implementation behaviour and significant technical decisions clearly.
• Work with Product, analysis, frontend engineering, data/ML specialists and domain experts to understand the problem before implementing the solution.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• Strong recent hands-on production backend engineering with TypeScript and Node.js; years of experience are not a standalone eligibility gate.
• Evidence of independently owning substantial backend features, services or systems in production.
• Ability to implement complex business/domain logic accurately, including rules, calculations, validation, workflows or state transitions.
• Strong relational-database engineering, including schema/integrity, transactions, queries and performance reasoning.
• Strong production API/integration engineering, automated testing, debugging and reliability thinking.
• Clear written technical communication and the ability to work from structured requirements and specifications.
• Experience with a structured backend framework. Direct NestJS is strongly desirable; credible TypeScript/Node.js framework transfer may be considered under the current proposed campaign treatment.
• Able to work on-site in Hyderabad, Monday-Friday. Relocation is permitted, but no relocation support is provided.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Substantial production NestJS experience.
• Direct PostgreSQL experience.
• Redis or Valkey, queues, background processing or event-driven systems.
• AWS or comparable cloud delivery experience.
• MikroORM or another mature ORM.