Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Driven, Scalable APIs

Blinq; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and ownership

Competitive salary with growth path

20 days annual leave

Team lunches

Catered lunches

Job summary

Blinq is hiring a backend-focused engineer in Melbourne to design, build, and operate scalable services using Node.js and TypeScript. You will own features end-to-end, improve reliability, and collaborate with product, design, and data teams to deliver high-impact solutions.

You will contribute to AI-assisted engineering workflows, support real-time experiences across contacts and analytics, and help reduce tech debt as the product scales.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production backend systems.
• Strong Node.js and TypeScript expertise with asynchronous/event-driven architecture knowledge.
• Solid API design, data modelling, and backend security understanding.
• Experience designing observable services in a cloud environment; GCP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Own features end-to-end from discovery to rollout and observability.
• Build systems for high-volume, real-time experiences across contact sharing and analytics.
• Improve reliability, performance, security, and testability of the backend platform.
• Collaborate with product, web, mobile, design, and data teams to solve complex problems.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

API design

Data modelling

Distributed systems

Backend security

Cloud (GCP)

Mentoring

Communication

AI-native development

Job description

Blinq is hiring a backend-focused engineer in Melbourne to design, build, and operate scalable services using Node.js and TypeScript. You will own features end-to-end, improve reliability, and collaborate with product, design, and data teams to deliver high-impact solutions.

You will contribute to AI-assisted engineering workflows, support real-time experiences across contacts and analytics, and help reduce tech debt as the product scales.