Software Engineer, Backend (Node.js)

Plane; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Plane is seeking a backend engineer to build and maintain production-grade Node.js/TypeScript services. You will design robust queue and worker systems to manage retries, idempotency, and failure scenarios while integrating with external APIs and ensuring token lifecycle and webhook reliability.

The role requires hands-on PostgreSQL experience, including query optimization and indexing. Collaboration on an open-source project used by thousands of teams is expected.

Qualifications

• Proven experience shipping Node.js/TypeScript apps to production.
• Fluent with middleware, DI, and app structure in Express/NestJS.
• Experience building async job systems with retries & idempotency.
• Skilled at integrating with third-party APIs, handling rate limits & pagination.
• Hands-on PostgreSQL knowledge including query plans and indexing.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend systems and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript in a production environment
• Design and implement queue and worker systems that handle retries, idempotency, and failure scenarios
• Integrate with external APIs, managing rate limits, pagination, webhook delivery, and token expiration
• Optimize and maintain PostgreSQL databases, including query optimization and index strategy
• Contribute to an open-source project that thousands of teams depend on

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Async job systems

API integration

PostgreSQL

Webhooks & tokens

Tools

Express

NestJS

Job description

Batch: 2023/2024/2025/2026.

About the role:

• - Build and maintain backend systems and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript in a production environment
• - Design and implement queue and worker systems that handle retries, idempotency, and failure scenarios
• - Integrate with external APIs, managing challenges like rate limiting, pagination, webhook delivery, and token expiration
• - Optimize and maintain PostgreSQL databases, including query optimization and index strategy
• - Contribute to an open-source project that thousands of teams depend on

What you'll bring:

• - Proven experience shipping Node.js and TypeScript applications to production; you can point to something you built and articulate what you would approach differently today
• - Working knowledge of Express, NestJS, or equivalent frameworks, with comfort around middleware patterns, application structure, and dependency injection
• - Experience building async job systems where you have solved problems around retries, idempotency, and handling partial failures
• - Track record integrating with third-party APIs outside your control, having navigated rate limits, pagination, webhook mechanics, and token lifecycle issues
• - Hands-on familiarity with PostgreSQL, including reading execution plans, adding indexes, and understanding the performance impact

Nice to haves:

• - Prior contributions to Plane, experience running it as a self-hosted instance, or maintenance work on another open-source project with real users
• - Built data importers or migration tools where data loss was not an option
• - Experience implementing OAuth on the provider side, or building a developer platform that others built integrations against
• - Built systems where AI agents operate on real data, with formed opinions on state management, access control, and audit logging