Job Description

Position Responsibilities

• End-to-end technical ownership of the Node.js backend architecture: service design, patterns, and long-term technical direction
• First technical review point for new product and feature requests — shaping what gets built and how before implementation begins
• Definition and evolution of backend engineering standards: API design conventions, code quality practices, testing approaches, and shared patterns
• Backend system health: reliability, latency, error rates, and the operational posture of services under production load
• Cross-functional technical alignment with Product, Mobile, Frontend, QA, and DevOps
• Mentoring of backend engineers — raising the technical bar across the team, not just within your own services
• Technical decision-making on service boundaries, data modelling, third-party integrations, and infrastructure trade-offs 

Job Requirements

Qualification and Experience

• 7–12+ years of backend engineering experience with Node.js as your primary runtime
• Deep production-grade expertise in Node.js with TypeScript — building, scaling, and operating backend services
• Strong experience with Node.js frameworks (NestJS or Express) at product scale, not just inside projects
• Proven ability to design RESTful APIs and event-driven systems that teams build on reliably over time
• Strong hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL) — schema design, query optimisation, and migrations under a live system
• Working knowledge of caching strategies and practical Redis experience
• Experience with message queuing or event-driven architecture (RabbitMQ, Kafka, or equivalent)
• Practical experience with containerisation and deployment (Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud-managed services)
• Strong awareness of observability: structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting at production scale

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