Responsibilities
- Design and evolve Node.js / NestJS services powering systems that operate at scale
- Take architectural decisions that balance scale, cost, and long-term maintainability
- Build well-typed, thoughtful REST contracts for high volume flows
- Think in versioning, backward compatibility, and clean boundaries
- Model and optimize MongoDB / Firestore schemas for high read/write workloads
- Design atomic updates and consistency strategies for distributed systems
- Implement queues, caching layers, and rate limiting to handle burst traffic gracefully
- Design for failure modes before they happen
- Ship modular Vue 3 UIs that efficiently consume APIs
- Optimize realtime updates and state management (Pinia)
- Improve Core Web Vitals and perceived performance
- Instrument logs, metrics, traces, and alerts
- Participate in on-call
- Debug real production issues
- Drive post-mortems to meaningful closure (not just documents)
- Review code thoughtfully
- Support junior engineers
- Raise engineering standards across the team
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional engineering experience
- Strong backend-heavy fullstack background
- Deep comfort with Node.js + TypeScript
- Experience building and scaling microservices (NestJS / Express)
- Modern frontend experience (Vue 3 or similar)
- Strong understanding of: API design
- Strong understanding of: Data modeling
- Strong understanding of: Distributed systems tradeoffs
- Strong understanding of: Concurrency & rate limiting
- Real production debugging experience
- Comfortable in cloud-native environments (GCP / AWS)
- CI/CD and containerization familiarity
Nice to Have
- Pub/Sub or message queue experience
- Event-driven systems exposure
- Domain-driven design familiarity
- Performance optimization work
- Experience reducing infra costs
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Additional Information
- This is not a ticket-execution role. This is a system ownership role.
- The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Voluntary demographic information collection for compliance purposes.
- Data kept separate from application and not used in hiring decision.
