Senior Software Engineer

Kumaran Systems

Greater Chennai Area

Job Summary:

We are seeking experienced Senior Backend Engineers (Golang/Node.js) with 8–12 years of backend development experience to design, develop, and operate scalable, event-driven microservices.

Employment Details:

Key Responsibilities:

Translate business requirements into clear specifications, API contracts, and implementation plans before coding.
Design and build Go or Node.js microservices using REST, gRPC, and Kafka-based event-driven flows.
Own non-functional requirements, including performance, reliability, observability, and security.
Critically review AI-generated code and specifications and write tests that validate implementation against the specification.
Mentor junior developers and improve engineering quality through code reviews.
Take features from specification to production with minimal supervision.

Required Technical Skills:

8+ years of backend development experience, including at least 3 years of production experience in Go or Node.js, with working proficiency in the other.
Strong knowledge of concurrency, asynchronous programming, and error handling in the primary language.
Hands-on experience with Kafka or equivalent messaging systems, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker/Kubernetes or OpenShift.
Experience operating production services, including incident debugging, performance tuning, and monitoring.
Experience writing design documents, RFCs, or technical specifications before implementation.
Ability to critically review and correct AI-generated code.
Demonstrated ability to learn new tools and workflows quickly.
Strong written communication skills.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana.
OAuth2/Keycloak experience.
Experience with AI coding tools such as Copilot or Claude, or with spec/design-doc-driven workflows.

Resumes should be shared with devika.raju@kumaran.com