Backend Engineer (TypeScript/Node.js)

Build real-time backend services for a multi-product platform

We are developing a large-scale platform that brings together social networking, video, music, marketplace, and communication features. The project is in active development — no legacy, no long onboarding. We are transitioning from a monolith to microservices and looking for a strong engineer who wants to build new services from scratch.

What You Will Do:

You will own specific business domains and develop backend services in TypeScript:

Domains may include:

• Real-time systems: notifications, WebSockets, presence
• Content services: posts, feeds, comments, reactions
• Social features: user discovery, suggestions, messaging
• Music module: playlists, recommendations, playback APIs
• Admin & moderation tools
• Search, filtering, recommendations
• Analytics, tracking, events
• Third-party integrations and internal tools
• Media: uploads, processing, optimization

Your responsibilities:

• Develop microservices in TypeScript (Node.js / Bun)
• Build REST APIs and real-time endpoints (WebSockets)
• Design PostgreSQL schemas and implement efficient data access
• Use Redis for caching, sessions, queues, pub/sub
• Write clean, type-safe, well-tested code
• Collaborate with the System Architect on service boundaries
• Monitor performance and optimize services
• Integrate with other backend services via API contracts

 Requirements:

• 2+ years of professional TypeScript/Node.js experience
• Strong knowledge of async/await, promises, type system
• Experience with REST API development
• PostgreSQL (schema design, optimization)
• Redis (caching, pub/sub, queues)
• Authentication & authorization (JWT, sessions, OAuth)
• Docker
• Ability to write maintainable, well-tested code (Jest or similar)
• Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment

 Nice to Have:

• WebSockets / real-time systems
• Microservices architecture
• gRPC or message brokers (Kafka, NATS, Redis Streams, BullMQ)
• NestJS
• Prisma / TypeORM / Drizzle
• AWS / GCP
• Observability tools (APM, tracing, logging)

 Why This Role Is Exciting:

• Greenfield development — build new services without legacy
• Ownership — you fully own your business domain
• Direct impact — influence architecture during key growth phase
• Real-time features — high impact, user-facing systems
• Fast delivery — see your work go live quickly