Senior Nodejs Engineer

ShuruTech; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote work

Competitive compensation

Career growth opportunities

Mentorship culture

Job summary

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

The role emphasizes production-grade backend development, architecture ownership, and delivering high-performance services with a focus on security and reliability.

Qualifications

• Proven backend development with Node.js and TypeScript in production environment.

Responsibilities

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

System design

REST APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Security practices

DevOps basics

Cloud platforms

Remote mentoring

Tools

NestJS

Express.js

Fastify

Kafka

Redis

RabbitMQ

BullMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

AWS

PostgreSQL

Job description

Shuru Technologies Private Limited | Full time

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.
• 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.
• 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.