Senior Backend Developer; Hybrid

At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you’re passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.

We're seeking an experienced Senior Backend Developer to join our team working on a sophisticated financial services platform. You'll be working with a modern microservices architecture built on Node.js, managing multiple services in a Lerna monorepo environment.

This role requires deep technical expertise in Type Script, distributed systems, and financial technology.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain microservices within our Lerna-managed monorepo (Express.js, NestJS)
• Architect scalable solutions for high-throughput financial data processing
• Optimize database performance across MySQL instances using both Prisma and Sequelize ORMs
• Implement robust message queue systems using AWS SQS and BullMQ/Redis
• Lead code reviews and mentor junior developers on best practices
• Collaborate on API design and maintain OpenAPI specifications
• Ensure system reliability through comprehensive testing (Jest)
• Participate in CI/CD pipeline improvements using Jenkins
• Debug and optimize production issues across distributed services.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of production Node.js experience
• Expert-level Type Script knowledge with strong understanding of type inference and advanced patterns
• Database expertise:
  MySQL optimization, query performance tuning, migration strategies
• ORM experience:
  Familiarity with both modern (Prisma) and legacy (Sequelize) ORMs
• Message queuing:
  Production experience with SQS, Redis/BullMQ, or similar
• Monorepo management:
  Experience with Lerna, Yarn work spaces, or similar tools
• Testing expertise:
  Unit, integration, and E2E testing strategies
• Docker & containerization:
  Multi-stage builds, orchestration, optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Yarn 4 and modern package management strategies
• NestJS framework expertise with Graph
  
  QL and REST API development
• Financial services or fintech background
• Experience with AWS services (SQS, S3, Local Stack for local development)
• Familiarity with conventional commits and semantic versioning
• Experience migrating legacy codebases while maintaining production stability
• Knowledge of Redis for caching and job queue management
• Understanding of Zero-Install strategies and workspace protocols.

Technical Environment

• Languages:
  
  Type Script, Node.js v24.4.0
• Frameworks:
  Express.js, NestJS (Fastify adapter)
• Databases:
  MySQL with Prisma & Sequelize ORMs
• Message Queues: AWS SQS, BullMQ with Redis
• Package Management:
  Yarn 4 with work spaces, Lerna monorepo
• Testing:
  Jest, Jasmine, SWC for fast compilation
• CI/CD:
  Jenkins, Docker multi-stage builds
• Architecture:
  Microservices (API, Server, Consumer, Cron services)

What You'll Work On

• API Service:
  Express.js REST API with clustering support (port 8019)
• Server Package:
  NestJS Graph
  
  QL/REST server with Prisma ORM (port 8093)
• Consumer Service: SQS message processing and job queue management
• Cron Service:
  Scheduled tasks and batch job orchestration
• Shared Libraries:
  Domain models, configuration management, SDK generation

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strong advocate for functional programming patterns and clean code
• Comfortable with rapid iteration in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with gradual migration strategies (we're transitioning from Sequelize to Prisma)
• Ability to balance technical debt reduction with feature delivery
• Strong debugging skills across distributed systems
• Commitment to structured logging and monitoring best practices
• Understanding of financial data security requirements

Required Experience Indicators
Candidates should be comfortable with:

• Managing package dependencies across multiple services
• Debugging Node.js memory leaks and performance issues
• Implementing graceful shutdown patterns for long-running processes
• Database transaction management across service boundaries
• Implementing idempotent message processing
• Zero-downtime deployment strategies

Note:

We use a comprehensive monorepo setup with specific conventions. Familiarity with our techstack will accelerate onboarding, but we value strong fundamentals and learning ability…