Senior Nodejs Engineer

Shuru; India; Remote; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Remote options

Learning opportunities

Impactful projects

Job summary

Shuru is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js) to build scalable backend systems using Node.js, TypeScript, and modern frameworks. You will own design and architecture decisions, and mentor teammates while collaborating with product and engineering teams in a remote setup.

You will work with relational databases, microservices, and messaging queues, ensuring security, performance, and reliability in a fast-growing AI-native environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript in production-grade backends.
• Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and messaging queues.
• Proficient in relational databases and REST API development.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable backend services and define architecture decisions.
• Mentor teammates and collaborate with product and engineering teams.
• Ensure secure, high-performance systems and reliable deployments.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Architecture design

Microservices

Distributed systems

REST APIs

Security

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP/AWS

Remote work

Tools

NestJS

Express.js

Fastify

Kafka

Redis

RabbitMQ

BullMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

GCP

Job description

Shuru is an AI-native technology and engineering company that partners with businesses to build and scale high-impact digital products, platforms, and AI-driven solutions. We work with fast-growing organizations across industries, helping them solve complex technology challenges through strong engineering, product, data, and AI capabilities.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js) to build scalable products, own design and architecture decisions, and mentor teammates. You will work closely with product and engineering teams to build secure, high-performance, and reliable backend systems using Node.js, TypeScript, and modern backend frameworks.

This is a remote position.

Shuru is an AI-native technology and engineering company that partners with businesses to build and scale high-impact digital products, platforms, and AI-driven solutions. We work with fast-growing organizations across industries, helping them solve complex technology challenges through strong engineering, product, data, and AI capabilities.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js) to build scalable products, own design and architecture decisions, and mentor teammates. You will work closely with product and engineering teams to build secure, high-performance, and reliable backend systems using Node.js, TypeScript, and modern backend frameworks.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript in building, scaling, and operating production-grade backend systems.
• Strong experience with at least one Node.js backend framework such as NestJS, Express.js, or Fastify.
• Solid understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript fundamentals, asynchronous programming, promises, event loops, concurrency, and non-blocking I/O.
• Strong understanding of design patterns, architectural principles, and system design.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases, data modeling, SQL query optimization, and REST API development.
• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed consistency, scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, and failure handling.
• Experience with messaging and background-processing systems such as Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, BullMQ, or similar technologies.
• Knowledge of application security, authentication, authorization, and secure data handling.
• Working knowledge of DevOps fundamentals, including CI/CD, Docker, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP); AWS experience is also acceptable.
• Ability to work independently, communicate technical decisions clearly, and mentor teammates in a remote environment.

Requirements

• Startup experience building products from 0 to 1 and scaling them from 1 to 100.
• Experience owning architecture and delivering greenfield products using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience building high-concurrency, low-latency, and high-throughput backend services.
• Strong understanding of Node.js performance optimization, event-loop behavior, memory management, profiling, and async I/O.
• Experience with distributed caching solutions such as Redis.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, database indexing, and query performance optimization.
• Experience in anti-fraud, commercial banking, fintech, or growth engineering is a plus.
• Comfort working with ambiguity, taking ownership, and balancing delivery speed with engineering quality.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with a team of experienced product and technology leaders.
• Flexible work environment with remote working options.
• Continuous learning and development opportunities.
• Chance to make a significant impact on diverse and innovative projects.