NodeJS Technical Architect

Job Title: Node.js Technical Architect

Experience : 12–15 Years

Job Summary

Seeking a hands-on Node.js Technical Architect to design and lead scalable, cloud-native applications. The role involves defining architecture, leading engineering teams, driving technical decisions, and ensuring successful delivery of enterprise-grade SaaS products.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop scalable backend systems using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Design microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and integration frameworks.
• Lead architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical governance.
• Drive containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Design and optimize database solutions using PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Business stakeholders.
• Pro-active to continuously improve processes, find ways to speed up releases while improving quality.
• Mentor development teams and provide technical leadership.
• Ensure system performance, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Leverage AI both for speeding development, and integrating into products.
• Expert in making trade-offs calls, and ability to decide what is acceptable technical debt.
• Monitor systems and team processes.

Required Skills

• 10+ years in software development with 3+ years in architecture roles.
• Strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar messaging platforms.
• Strong knowledge of cloud services, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis.
• Expertise in API design, system integration, caching opportunities and scalable architecture patterns.
• Experience leading engineering teams and large-scale software projects.
• Demonstrate ability to create and architecture products from scratch as well as to understand and evolve a large code base and take care of accumulated technical debt.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with monorepos.
• Knowledge of SAFe Agile or Scrum frameworks.
• Experience in multi-tenant SaaS platforms and high-volume transaction systems.
• Experience with other languages than JS (Java, python, etc.)
• Experience with setting up development processes, KPI management