Senior Node.js Developer (Remote)

About the role

Coforge is hiring a Senior Node.js Developer to work remotely on cloud-based streaming services. The role covers designing, developing and maintaining complex modules, owning software components end to end, and deploying and operating services across multiple AWS regions.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain complex modules for cloud-based streaming services.
• Own software components and initiatives end to end, ensuring high engineering quality and operational standards.
• Deploy and operate services across multiple AWS regions, mainly using ECS and EC2, with S3, DynamoDB, SQS, ElastiCache/Redis, Lambda and CloudFront.
• Improve performance and resiliency through caching and eviction strategies, retry mechanisms, dead-letter recovery and scaling policies.
• Optimize memory and data access through memory-mapped or pager-based approaches.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis and implement fixes.
• Contribute to system design, architecture discussions, technical planning and roadmap initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to automate engineering workflows, including AI-assisted development tools.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4-5 years of hands-on software development experience building and operating production services.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js experience, or strong backend experience in another language with quick adaptability to Node.js.
• Hands-on AWS experience, especially ECS and EC2.
• DevOps fundamentals, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and multi-environment deployments.
• Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, mathematics and performance optimization; object-oriented and/or functional programming, concurrency and troubleshooting.
• Experience with high-traffic distributed systems, REST or WebSocket APIs, and JSON or Protobuf.
• Familiarity with observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and Agile methodologies.

Required skills

• Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, AWS (ECS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda, CloudFront)
• CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, REST/WebSocket APIs
• Preferred: Terraform or CloudFormation, Jenkins or Harness, memory-mapped files, RocksDB, CDNs, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Rust