Ladera Technology - Backend Development Lead - Node.js
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About the role
This is a full-time, on-site Backend Development Lead role in Chennai for a Node.js engineer with at least three years of backend experience. You’ll build scalable APIs and real-time services for conversation, context, and AI assistant features. The role focuses on event-driven systems, streaming communication, data persistence, API security, and cloud deployment.
What you’ll do
- Implement bidirectional real-time communication with WebSockets or server-sent events.
- Design Kafka-based event streams and asynchronous processing flows.
- Build performant REST APIs for conversations, context, and user interactions.
- Integrate AI APIs for chat and assistant functionality.
- Optimize concurrent request handling and streaming pipelines.
- Write and tune PostgreSQL queries for user and conversation data.
- Use Redis for caching and session state.
- Containerize services and deploy them to cloud platforms.
What they’re looking for
- Have three or more years of Node.js backend development experience.
- Be highly proficient in TypeScript and JavaScript.
- Have production experience with NestJS, HapiJS, or Fastify.
- Know PostgreSQL query optimization and Redis caching.
- Have experience with Kafka, asynchronous programming, and real-time streaming.
- Practice unit testing and test-driven development.
- Understand REST API design, authentication, rate limiting, Docker, cloud platforms, Git, and debugging.
Questions about this role
Where is the Node.js Backend Development Lead role located?
The role is located in Chennai.
How much Node.js experience is required?
The posting asks for at least three years of Node.js and backend development experience.
Which technologies are required?
The role calls for TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, real-time streaming, Docker, and cloud-platform knowledge.
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