Senior Backend Engineer

A media & entertainment firm that provides a premier entertainment platform covering India's regional cultures has an extensive library of original stories in shows and movies(multiple languages). This platform serves as a multi-cultural-award-winning platform that is committed in bringing the best in regional entertainment, stories from heartland delivered to consumers via phones. Currently, the firm is on the search of Senior Backend Engineer - III. The corresponding job details are given below. Job Role/Position: Senior Backend Engineer - III Industry - Media and Entertainment Function - IT/Software Work Location - Noida Work Mode - ONSITE (Workdays - 5 days a week) Qualifications:- Graduation Required Work Experience:- 6-8 years Salary Range: INR 40-45 Lakhs/Year Age Limit - 35 years Required Skills:- TypeScript, MVC, Cloud experience(Azure, AWS, etc.), MongoDB, Express.js, Nest.js Job Overview About the job We are looking for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Backend team. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast growing company in the early stage where you will get to solve real customer + business problems, shape the future of a product built for Bharat & build an engineering culture of the team. You will have immense responsibility & autonomy to push the boundaries of engineering to deliver scalable & resilient systems. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for shipping innovative features at breakneck speed, designing the architecture, mentoring other engineers on the team & pushing for a high bar of engineering standards like code quality, automated testing, performance, CI/CD, etc. If you are someone who loves solving problems for customers, technology, the craft of software engineering, & the thrill of building startups, we would like to talk to you. What you will be doing Build and ship features in our Node.js (and now migrating to TypeScript) codebase that directly impact user experience & help move the top and bottom line of the business. Collaborate closely with our product, design & data team to build innovative features to deliver a world class product to our customers. In this company, product managers don’t tell what to build. In fact, we all collaborate on how to solve a problem for our customers & the business. Engineering plays a big part in it. Design scalable platforms that empower our product & marketing teams to rapidly experiment. Own the quality of our products by writing automated tests, reviewing code, making systems observable & resilient to failures. Drive code quality & pay down architectural debt by continuous analysis of our codebases and systems, & continuous refactoring. Architect our systems for faster iterations, releasability, scalability & high availability using practices like Domain Driven Design, Event Driven Architecture, Cloud Native Architecture & Observability. Set the engineering culture with the rest of the team by defining how we should work as a team, set standards for quality, & improve the speed of engineering execution. The role could be ideal for you if you have Experience of 6+ years of working in backend engineering with at least 2 years of production experience in TypeScript, Express.js (or another popular framework like Nest.js) & MongoDB (or any popular database like MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, etc.). Well versed with one or more architectures + design patterns such as MVC, Domain Driven Design, CQRS, Event Driven Architecture, Cloud Native Architecture, etc. Experienced in writing automated tests (especially integration tests) & Continuous Integration. At STAGE, engineers own quality & hence, writing automated tests is crucial to the role. Experience with managing production infrastructure using technologies like public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.). Bonus: if you have experience in using Kubernetes. Experience in observability techniques like code instrumentation for metrics, tracing & logging. Care deeply about code quality, code reviews, software architecture (think about Object Oriented Programming, Clean Code, etc.), scalability & reliability. Bonus: if you have experience in this from your past roles. Understand the importance of shipping fast in a startup environment & constantly try to find ingenious ways to achieve the same. Collaborate well with everyone on the team. We communicate a lot & don’t hesitate to get quick feedback from other members on the team sooner than later. Can take ownership of goals and deliver them with high accountability. Don’t hesitate to try out new technologies. In this company, nobody is limited to a role. Every engineer in our team is an expert of at least one technology but often ventures out in adjacent technologies like React.js, Flutter, Data Platforms, AWS and Kubernetes. If you are not excited by this, you will not like working in this company. Bonus: if you have experience in adjacent technologies like AWS (or any public cloud provider, Github Actions (or CircleCI), Kubernetes, infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.), etc. Mandatory Job Requirements Need candidates from Growing startups or Product based companies only 1. 6+ years experience in backend engineering 2. Minimum 2+ years hands-on experience with: TypeScript Express.js / Nest.js 3. Strong experience with MongoDB (or MySQL / PostgreSQL / DynamoDB) 4. Strong understanding of system design & scalable architecture 5. Hands-on experience in: Event-driven architecture / Domain-driven design MVC / Microservices 6. Strong in automated testing (especially integration tests) 7. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) 8. Experience managing production systems 9. Solid understanding of performance, reliability, observability 10. Cloud experience (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable) 11. Strong coding standards Clean Code, code reviews, refactoring PS:- Only those who meet the job criteria specified in the job description and satisfy the mandatory requirements for the job role, are required to apply.