Vice President - Backend Architecture - Node.JS - B2B SaaS Platform Startup - IIT/NIT/BITS (15-18 yrs)

- Competitive remuneration & excellent career development opportunities

- Contribute to a next-gen AWS and MERN-based platform and instigate a shift to a Microservices architecture

Our client is a dynamic B2B SaaS platform startup, has embarked on a mission to revolutionize IT operations globally, following an exceptional launch in Japan and securing $125 million in Series A and B funding.

The Job

This is a senior role for a professional with deep experience in Node.js Backend Architecture. You will work in a matrix organisation & take charge of designing and implementing scalable, high-performance, and reliable backend systems. You will be responsible for leading the technical design and development of the backend services, working closely with cross-functional teams including front-end developers, product managers, and data scientists to ensure successful delivery of projects.

To be successful in this role, you should have a strong understanding of software architecture and design principles, as well as experience working on B2B SaaS applications. Additionally, candidates MUST have experience with scaling applications and systems preferably working on building cloud native SaaS applications in 1- 10 or 10- 100 growth scenarios.

Responsibilities:

- Architect and design scalable, reliable and high-performance backend systems using Node.js

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and analyze requirements, and ensure alignment with business objectives

- Develop and implement solutions for data storage, retrieval, and processing

- Build RESTful APIs and web services to enable seamless communication between our frontend and backend systems

- Ensure security, reliability, and fault tolerance of our backend systems

- Design and implement scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems

- Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, data models, and API specifications

- Mentor and guide junior developers in the team, and review their code to ensure adherence to best practices and standards

- Design and develop integrations with third-party SaaS applications using SDKs and REST APIs.

- Implement secure and efficient data exchange mechanisms between our company's applications and SaaS systems.

- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in SaaS integration technologies, and incorporate them into our solutions as appropriate work with third-party vendors to understand and utilize their APIs to build and maintain integrations

- Design and develop Elasticsearch-based search and data querying solutions, and integrate them with GraphQL APIs.

Ideal Candidate

- You have a degree in Engineering from a top tier institute as well as at least 15 years experience, including at least 5 years of experience as software architect

- You also possess extensive experience (at least 3 years) in designing and developing backend systems using Node.js and related technologies such as Express.js and MongoDB

- Strong experience in designing and implementing distributed systems using microservices architecture, RESTful API design principles and best practices

- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS (including EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, DocumentDB, OpenSearch ) and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

- Strong knowledge of database technologies, including relational and NoSQL databases

- Knowledge on Ruby on Rails, GOlang a plus

- Proven track record of designing and building scalable and high-performance software architecture for B2B SaaS products leveraging Cloud Native technologies

- Define best practices and development standards to ensure high-quality code

- Strong computer science fundamentals

- Logical thinking and problem-solving skills along with an ability to collaborate

- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and experience working in an Agile development environment

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams

- Experience in mentoring and leading junior developers, ability to review code and provide constructive feedback