Associate Principal Engineer, Node.js and AWS Cloud

REQUIREMENTS:

• Total Experience : 10+ years
• Strong hands-on experience in Node.js backend development, including debugging and API development.
• Expertise with microservices architecture, serverless patterns, and event-driven systems.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services, including,EC2, Lambda, API Gatewa,S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and event-driven microservices.
• Proficiency in software engineering best practices: unit testing, automation, CI/CD, code reviews.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native or third-party tools.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and container deployments on ECS/EKS.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience in AWS cost optimization, including right-sizing, autoscaling, reserved capacity, and lifecycle policies.
• Practical understanding of FinOps practices, including tagging, budget alerts, and cost dashboards.
• Basic understanding of IoT data concepts, including telemetry flow and ingestion patterns.
• Ability to design scalable cloud-native architectures (serverless, containers, microservices).
• Experience in cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Strong communication and client-facing consulting skills, including requirement gathering and stakeholder management.
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance in a fast-paced and dynamic client environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Writing and reviewing high-quality Node.js code for scalable backend systems.
• Understanding functional requirements thoroughly and analyzing client needs in the context of cloud and application architecture.
• Envisioning the overall solution for functional and non-functional requirements and defining AWS technologies, patterns, and frameworks to realize it.
• Designing, deploying, and managing AWS-based applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
• Determining and implementing design methodologies and toolsets aligned with cloud-native best practices.
• Enabling application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities across onsite and offshore teams.
• Leading and supporting UAT and production rollouts, ensuring smooth delivery and deployment.
• Creating, understanding, and validating effort estimates for assigned modules/tasks and being able to justify them.
• Addressing issues promptly, responding positively to setbacks, and continuously improving system quality and performance.
• Giving constructive feedback to team members and setting clear expectations for delivery.
• Helping the team troubleshoot and resolve complex bugs across backend and cloud infrastructure.
• Coming up with solutions to issues raised during code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions, and explaining the reasoning behind decisions.
• Carrying out POCs to validate suggested designs, AWS services, and architectural decisions for client use cases.
• Establishing monitoring, logging, and alerting for system health, performance, and cost anomalies.
• Coordinating with offshore teams to ensure delivery alignment and effective collaboration.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.