Senior Backend Engineer; Node.js​/TypeScript

About The Role

You will be the technical owner on customer engagements, usually 4‑12 weeks of project work or longer dedicated‑pod retainers. You will write production code, review every PR (yours and AI’s), and stand behind the architecture you ship. We’re a senior‑only studio: no juniors guarded by one senior, no agency‑of‑the‑week mid‑levels.

• Design and ship backend services in Type Script / Node.js: APIs, ledgers, integrations, queues, webhooks.
• Own architecture decisions: data model, deployment shape, observability, on‑call story.
• Pair with QA and Security engineers from day one of the engagement, not at the end.
• Use AI assistants for scaffolding, code review, and test generation; reject what’s wrong, keep what’s right.
• Demo working software every Friday. Document as part of the Definition of Done.
• Hand over to client teams with runbooks, decision logs, and onboarding sessions.

• 5+ years building production backends in Type Script / Node.js (or strong Go / Python adjacent + clear path to TS).
• Deep PostgreSQL knowledge: schema design, indexing, query plans, migrations under traffic.
• Comfort with AWS (or GCP / Azure) at the level needed to ship: ECS / Lambda / RDS / S3 / IAM.
• Track record of owning a production system end‑to‑end, not just shipping features into one.
• Written communication good enough that documentation isn’t a chore.
• Comfort working async across at least one time‑zone boundary (US, UK, EU, or ME).

• Stripe / payment‑rails integration experience (Issuing, Connect, billing).
• Multi‑tenant SaaS architecture experience.
• OSS contributions or technical writing.

Competitive global rate, scaled to experience and engagement. Profit‑share for full‑time hires.

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