Responsibilities:

Backend System Ownership

Design and evolve Node.js / NestJS services powering systems that operate at scale

Take architectural decisions that balance scale, cost, and long-term maintainability

API Craftsmanship

Build well-typed, thoughtful REST contracts for high volume flows

Think in versioning, backward compatibility, and clean boundaries

Data at Scale

Model and optimize MongoDB / Firestore schemas for high read/write workloads

Design atomic updates and consistency strategies for distributed systems

Scalability & Resilience

Implement queues, caching layers, and rate limiting to handle burst traffic gracefully

Design for failure modes before they happen

Frontend Integration

Ship modular Vue 3 UIs that efficiently consume APIs

Optimize realtime updates and state management (Pinia)

Improve Core Web Vitals and perceived performance

Observability & Production Ownership

Instrument logs, metrics, traces, and alerts

Participate in on-call

Debug real production issues

Drive post-mortems to meaningful closure (not just documents)

Mentorship & Leverage

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

Data modeling

Distributed systems tradeoffs

Concurrency & rate limiting

Real production debugging experience

Comfortable in cloud-native environments (GCP / AWS)
CI/CD and containerization familiarity

Bonus Points:

Pub/Sub or message queue experience

Event-driven systems exposure

Domain-driven design familiarity

Performance optimization work

Experience reducing infra costs

Our Tech Environment:

Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS / Express
Frontend: Vue 3, Pinia, Vite / Webpack, Tailwind
Storage: MongoDB, Firestore, Redis, ElasticSearch
Infra: GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks)
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes
Testing: Jest, Vitest

What You Will Get

• Ownership of real systems

• Complex problems worth solving

• Exposure to scale

• High engineering bar

• A team that values thoughtful design over rushed patches