AVP Backend (NodeJS)

Job Responsibilities :

Lead, manage & inspire a team of backend software engineers, providing technical guidance, mentorship and performance management

Owning end-to-end responsibility of software development life cycle, ensuring projects are

delivered on schedule, within budget and with high quality

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, develop, and ship new features, develop

technical strategies and product development plan

Evaluate requirements and create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured development

strategies

Writing clean, efficient & maintained code

Conduct regular code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards, scalability,

maintainability and performance optimization

Identify and resolve technical challenges, proactively mitigating risks and providing

innovative solutions

Monitor and optimize team performance, productivity and resource utilization to meet project

deadlines and deliverables

Develop and implement strategic plans to foster a culture of innovation, collaboration,

continuous learning & improvements.

Build high performing teams by attracting, mentoring and retaining top engineering talent

Setting KPIs and other metrics to measure team performance

Team management & motivation

Mentoring & Coaching

Stay informed about emerging technologies, industry trends and best practices in software

engineering

Required

Proven 8+ years of experience working as backend engineer

Prior experience in designing and developing highly scalable, high performance and fault

tolerant mobile application products with infrastructure hosted on AWS

Experience leading engineering teams and understand how to hire and retain the best

engineering talent

Excellent understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms

Excellent understanding of System Design & Micro-service Architecture

Proficiency in developing secure, scalable & highly optimized RESTful-based web services /

APIs using Node JS

Building scalable and performance oriented services with caching techniques

Experience with MongoDB (Mongo Atlas) and analyzing the efficiency of queries

Experience working on ElasticSearch/Solr

Experience Integrating payment gateways

integrating with logging and monitoring systems

Experience working on cloud technologies (AWS), Docker/Kubernetes,

BullMQ/Kafka/RabbitMQ

Experience with DevOps and delivering into cloud-based environments using standard

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, SonarQube, Spinnaker) and best practices

Solid debugging skills with the ability to identify performance bottlenecks and drive

optimization efforts

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivery high-quality results

Excellent communication & interpersonal skills

Outstanding customer-centric & growth mindset and a hunger for impact

Desired

Solid understanding of iOS/Android App Development.

Experience with relational databases and knowledge of SQL

Location - Andheri East, Mumbai