Job Description

Job Title: Senior Staff Engineer, NodeJs

Company: Nagarro

Years of Experience: 10+ years

Location: Chennai

Role Type: Full-time

Salary: Competitive

Eligibility

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in NodeJS, Microservices, and scalable distributed systems.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Staff Engineer – NodeJS & Microservices to join our global team at Nagarro. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in backend development, automation testing, cloud-native architecture, and distributed systems. In this role, you’ll design and deliver high-performance solutions, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with global teams to create next-gen digital products.

Key Responsibilities

• Write and review high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code.
• Understand functional requirements and translate them into technical designs and implementations.
• Define technologies, frameworks, and design patterns for functional and non-functional requirements.
• Implement design methodologies and toolsets to improve development efficiency.
• Lead and support UAT and production rollouts.
• Estimate effort (WBS) for tasks/modules and justify technical decisions.
• Provide constructive feedback, mentorship, and guidance to team members.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex bugs in distributed systems.
• Conduct POCs to validate new technologies and solutions.
• Continuously improve processes with a mindset of innovation and problem-solving.

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong expertise in NodeJS, JavaScript, and Databases.
• Advanced skills in TypeScript and Microservices Architecture (MSA).
• Hands-on experience in Automation Testing with Playwright, Cucumber, Appium, or Selenium.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful API development and GraphQL.
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and debugging distributed systems.
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerization concepts.
• Experience with API Gateway integrations (e.g., 3Scale).
• Strong understanding of authentication mechanisms (SSO, JWT, OAuth).
• Expertise with message/task queues (AWS, Azure, Pushpin, Kafka).
• Experience in performance tuning, debugging, and monitoring.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across global teams.