Senior Node.js Developer (6-10 yrs)

Role Overview :

- Position : NodeJS Developer III (Contingent)

- Experience : 5-8 years overall (higher experience acceptable if hands-on)

Mandatory Skill Requirements (Non-Negotiable) :

Backend / Programming :

- Strong Node.js with solid JavaScript / TypeScript fundamentals

- Minimum 3+ years of recent, hands-on Node.js experience

- Candidates transitioning from Java / J2EE / Spring Boot to Node.js are acceptable, provided recent Node.js exposure is strong

- This is a purely hands-on coding role

AWS (Critical) :

- Hands-on AWS experience is mandatory (not just deployment exposure)

- Candidate must be able to :

1. Debug application issues directly in AWS

2. Work with logs, AWS workflows, and Step Functions

- Key services used :

1. ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, RDS, DynamoDB

2. CloudWatch knowledge is expected

- AWS experience : Ideally 3+ years (strong candidates may be evaluated based on depth)

Databases :

- Working experience with both SQL (RDS) and NoSQL (DynamoDB)

Frontend Expectations :

- React.js preferred but not mandatory

- Strong backend candidates open to learning/handling React (?20% work) are acceptable

- Angular experience is also acceptable as frontend exposure

- Candidates must be open to full-stack work; profiles refusing frontend tasks should be avoided

DevOps / CI-CD :

- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines

- Experience with Jenkins and AWS-based deployments preferred

- Terraform knowledge is a plus, not mandatory

System Design :

- As a Developer III (Senior) role, candidates should have basic system design and distributed systems understanding, which is considered a baseline expectation

Location & Work Model (Strict) :

- Location : Bangalore only

- Remote candidates are NOT acceptable

Hiring Notes & Submission Instructions :

- Immediate joiners / short notice candidates are strongly preferred

Responsibilities :

- Design and Develop O2Ps platform (consisting of a web application and APIs)

- Contribute to the DevOps functions of scalable, secure & cost-effective customer facing web and software applications in the AWS cloud (Lambda, ECS containers, API Gateway, RDS)

- Proactively work to evaluate and adopt technology solutions to build the O2P platform

- Use strong Quality and DevOps practices to build maintainable and extensible solutions; the solutions that you help build are pragmatic and resilient and consider the upstream and downstream process and system impacts; you are strongly invested in Unit Testing

- Work to meet Autodesks Built with Forge pillars that encompass Engineering Excellence, Build and Deploy, Operational Excellence, Recoverability & Reliability areas

- Partner with business stakeholders to understand the use cases that fuel the business and translate them to functional and non-functional requirements

- Support the products you build in Production

- Mentor and work with team members spread in APAC, EMEA and the US

Minimum Qualifications :

- Consistent with the role, have strong architectural skills and ability to design scalable, available, resilient and cost-effective applications in the cloud (preferably AWS)

- The candidate should have the ability to pick out the right tech stack and tools for the problem to be solved

- Strong technical expertise in building Restful microservices using Node.js with an appropriate data store suited to the problem at hand (should be comfortable with both Relational and NoSQL databases)

- Technical expertise in building API and UI

- Good knowledge of API security and data encryption

- Strong DevOps and Quality mindset with design and implementation experience in the areas of CI/CD, Observability and Test automation

- We want a team that solves the problems of today but also can evolve; to that end, we want a team member with a curious & growth mindset, a collaborative work style that seeks to understand & drive solutions and effective communication