Senior Backend Developer

Senior Backend Developer

About the Role We're looking for an experienced Senior Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain the services that power our platform. You'll work across our serverless AWS stack, own critical APIs, and help lead the migration of legacy systems onto a modern TypeScript/Node.js foundation.

What You'll

Do
Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, RESTful APIs, and microservices
Develop and operate serverless applications on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, ElastiCache)
Model, query, and optimize data across both relational (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases
Integrate and manage authentication and authorization using Auth0
Contribute to the migration of legacy services onto our modern stack
Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and participate in code reviews
Collaborate with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable features

Required Qualifications

Senior-level experience building and shipping production backend systems
Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js
Hands-on experience designing and consuming APIs
Solid experience with the AWS ecosystem, particularly:
AWS Lambda
AWS API Gateway
Amazon S3
Amazon SQS
Amazon SNS
Amazon ElastiCache
Experience with both MySQL and MongoDB
Experience implementing authentication with Auth0

Nice to Have

Previous PHP experience, which will be valuable for legacy system migration work
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tooling