Node.js - 2 to 5 years - pune

hiring for our IT Client Role- Backend Developer Location- Pune (WFO) Experience- 2 to 5 yrs Responsibilities ● Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services and REST APIs using Node.js. ● Take complete ownership of specific features or modules across the product lifecycle. ● Collaborate with frontend developers, QA engineers, and product managers in a distributed team environment. ● Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality before handoff to Quality Assurance teams. ● Participate in code reviews and contribute to maintaining high engineering standards across the team. ● Keep up-to-date with Node.js ecosystem developments, security best practices, and infrastructure trends. ● Contribute to technical documentation including API specs, design documents, and runbooks. Requirements ● 2 to 5 years of professional backend development experience with Node.js. ● Strong proficiency with Node.js and frameworks such as Express.js or Fastify. ● Solid understanding of RESTful API design principles — HTTP methods, status codes, versioning, and idempotency. ● Good understanding of asynchronous programming — Promises, async/await, and the Node.js event loop. ● Experience with TypeScript in backend codebases. ● Experience working with SQL databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL) — joins, indexing, transactions, and query optimisation. ● Familiarity with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB. ● Experience with Redis for caching — cache-aside pattern, TTL, and cache invalidation strategies. ● Familiarity with message queues such as RabbitMQ, BullMQ, or Kafka is desirable. ● Understanding of authentication and authorisation patterns — JWT, OAuth2, and session management. ● Experience with Git and working in CI/CD environments. BE in IT or equivalent