Position Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of RESTful and event-driven APIs consumed by mobile and web clients
• End-to-end service ownership: from requirements through deployment and production health
• API contracts and versioning — ensuring consumers can depend on what you build
• Data modelling and data base design across relational and caching layers
• Integration with third-party services (payment gateways, notification platforms, logistics providers)
• Performance and reliability of the services you own: latency, error rates, and scalability under load
• Code review participation and contribution to backend engineering standards

Qualification and Experience

• 4‒7 years of backend engineering experience with Node.js as your primary runtime
• Demonstrated experience owning backend features or services end-to-end, not just contributing to them
• Experience working in product-driven or startup environments with evolving requirements
• Familiarity with API design as a discipline — understanding what makes an API goodto build on, not just functional
• Experience building backend systems for high-transaction consumer applications (ordering, payments, loyalty, or delivery)
• Background in F&B, logistics, or operational-heavy consumer businesses
• Hands-on experience designing or operating microservices — service decomposition, inter service communication (REST or gRPC), and managing the operational complexity that comes with distributed systems
• Exposure to GraphQL or Backend for Frontend(BFF)patterns
• Experience with feature flags, A/B testing infrastructure, or gradual rollout systems
• Understanding of mobile API consumption patterns —what makes an API genuinely good to work with from a Flutter or React Native client

Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in Node.js with production-grade TypeScript experience
• Solid experience with a Node.js framework (NestJS or Express) in a product environment
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, versioning, and documentation (OpenAPI / Swagger)
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and caching layers (Redis)
• Experience with message queuing or event-driven systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, or equivalent)
• Practical experience with containerization and deployment (Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud managed services)
• Working knowledge of observability practices: structured logging, metrics, and alerting

Engineering Collaboration Skills

• Ability to design API contracts collaboratively with mobile and frontend engineers before implementation begins
• Strong written communication —your technical decisions should be legible to both Product and Engineering
• Comfort raising technical concerns early, not after a feature has been built the wrong way
• Ability to work across team boundaries without needing to be directed at every step
• Self-directed: able to assess scope, flag risks, and make implementation decisions independently

a Necessity, not a Luxury

Back Apply