Backend Engineer - Node.js

Roles & Responsibilities:

Minimum 5 years of coding experience in NodeJS, JavaScript & TypeScript and NoSQL Databases.
Proven track record of implementing AI-powered features—such as chatbot interfaces, language understanding, and summarization
Hands-on experience and understanding of cloud and open source LLMs 
Experience integrating AI frameworks (e.g., Langchain, LangGraph) into existing or newly built applications to enable advanced language processing
Hands-on experience with OpenShift or similar container platforms (Kubernetes) for orchestration and deployment.
Architecting and automating the build process for production, using task runners or scripts
Banking or Retail domains knowledge is good to have.
Hands on experience in performance tuning, debugging, monitoring.

Technical Skills

Expertise in developing scalable, highly available RESTful APIs using NodeJS
Familiarity with common programming tools such as RESTful APIs, TypeScript, version control software, and remote deployment tools, CI/CD tools
Familiarity with asynchronous programming patterns, including Promises, async/await, and event-driven architectures.
Knowledge in designing, fine-tuning, and engineering prompts for large language model (LLM)-based solutions, integrating them via APIs or SDKs.
Familiarity with ORMs and ODMs like Sequelize, TypeORM, or Mongoose for database interaction.
Knowledge in implementing real-time communication using WebSockets 
Working knowledge of Azure AI services, including speech, langugage, OpenAI, PII detection
Well versed with CI/CD principles, and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem 
Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes. 
Familiarity with firewall and network security concepts, including best practices for securing APIs and data in a regulated environment.
Thorough understanding of the responsibilities of the platform, database, API, caching layer, proxies, and other web services used in the system
Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multi-threading, when needed
Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model 
Documenting the code inline using JSDoc or other conventions
Ability to create automation test scripts is preferred
Proficient with the latest versions of ECMAScript (JavaScript or TypeScript)

Functional Skills

Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and practices
Experience in Agile methodology.
Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.
Experience in Banking, Financial and Fintech experience in an enterprise environment preferred
Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.

Soft Skills

Able to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and effectiveness, by sharing deep knowledge and experience. 
Self-motivator and self-starter, Ability to own and drive things without supervision and works collaboratively with the teams across the organization. 
Have excellent soft skills and interpersonal skills to interact and present the ideas to Senior and Executive management