Job posts for this role ask most for Node.js and TypeScript, with React in the browser, Express.js or NestJS on the server, and PostgreSQL or MongoDB for the data. The full story of what each skill is used for is on the skills page.

Among product companies, the hiring hotspots are the companies whose whole product is a web app. Most of them are B2B, selling online software to other businesses, and many are start-ups.

The biggest hiring hotspot is Enterprise SaaS and software, and above all the software that wins customers. Martech hires Node more heavily than almost any other industry (who they hire). HighLevel builds marketing automation and customer engagement platforms for small businesses, and AiSensy builds tools for WhatsApp marketing and conversational commerce platforms. Both are React full-stack in TypeScript, with Express and Postgres. Next door, ZoomInfo, 6sense and HG Insights build B2B sales intelligence and ABM platforms that tell sales teams who to sell to, and run Node as a backend over large amounts of buyer data. Docusign builds its e-signature product, part of document processing, management and e-signature software, in Node too. This is mostly work for experienced engineers.

Node is hired hardest in traditional industries going digital, such as schools, courts, government and farms. Edtech is the most junior-friendly place in the market for this role, freshers included (who they hire). Learneo and QuillBot build writing tools for language and writing apps. Digiaccel Learning, Simplilearn and upGrad build upskilling platforms and coding bootcamps. The school apps of K-12 digital learning and the career platforms of campus placement and career platforms take freshers most readily of all. OpenGov and Granicus build government software almost entirely in full-stack JavaScript.

In e-commerce, travel and logistics, the hiring hotspots are the tools sold to online shops and fleets. GoKwik, ShopDeck and Loop Subscriptions build e-commerce storefront, checkout and search tools, including checkout and subscription tools, in NestJS and Postgres, and they open the door to juniors. Platform Science, DAT Freight & Analytics and SuperProcure build transportation management (TMS) and digital freight marketplaces in React full-stack. Among E-commerce and D2C brands, eBay, StockX and Purplle hire Node engineers too.

Industrial tech and mobility is a surprise hiring hotspot, because its software now reaches users as web apps. Procore builds software for construction in React and Node with GraphQL. Aurora Energy Research and Zema Global build web apps for modelling and trading the energy market. Autodesk and Esko build CAD and PLM software that runs in the browser.

A few more pockets are worth knowing. In Gaming, streaming and media, Roku, DAZN and Crunchyroll build their services for OTT and live streaming platforms in Node, and Thomson Reuters and Elsevier build products for news, publishing and social media. Snapmint, InCred and Refyne build apps for digital lending and BNPL, and take juniors readily. In Cybersecurity, Safe Security, Okta and SonicWall build React and Node on AWS, and Safe Security is open to freshers.

In the services world, Node engineers build web products for clients, often as a backend on its own with Express or NestJS on AWS. Accenture is the largest single employer of Node engineers in India, though Node is a tiny part of its hiring (who they hire). The IT services giants, like IBM, Infosys, Capgemini and TCS, hire many but almost never juniors.

The consulting firms' engineering arms are the hiring hotspot most open to a junior (who they hire). Deloitte, Sia, PwC India and BCG build Node backends on AWS with Express and Postgres. Small software shops, like Bellurbis, Unified Infotech and SynapseIndia, hire Node most heavily of any services firms, building React full-stack for smaller clients. Mid-sized IT services firms, like Virtusa, Synechron, Birlasoft and Happiest Minds, build Node backends for clients, mostly with experienced engineers. The services firms that feel like product companies, like EPAM and Nagarro, and The quiet foreign majors, like CGI and Sopra Steria, hire Node engineers too. More on all of them is in the services world's smaller roles.

Node is a small role in the GCCs, and they hire it mostly where the parent sells online. The work is React and Node on top of GraphQL, and it is mostly for senior and staff engineers.

The retailers are the GCC hiring hotspot. Inside the retailers and consumer-goods companies, Tesco, Walmart, 7-Eleven, Best Buy India and Lowe's build the parent's web shop at the centres that make its apps and platforms (who they hire). Inside the media, entertainment and publishing groups, Warner Bros. Discovery and Condé Nast are small but hire Node heavily. Inside hotels, airlines, property firms and the rest, Marriott Tech Accelerator does the same for its booking sites, and it is the GCC likeliest to take a junior. The banks hire few Node engineers, since they build in Java and .NET. More on Node across the GCCs is in the GCCs' other roles.

Big tech hardly hires JavaScript and Node engineers in India.

The hiring platforms, like Uplers, GoodSpace AI, Weekday AI and Smart Working, are one of the largest sources of Node work in India. Most of it is remote work on the MERN stack, React with Node and MongoDB, for companies abroad. The staffing companies, like Recro, HuntingCube and Skills Agency, place full-stack Node engineers on AWS and Postgres, and take juniors more readily than most of the market.

Node engineers are rarely hired by big tech, by the GCCs of banks, or by the chip makers and the companies that build networks and data storage. These build in Java, .NET, C++ or Go.