Remote Backend Engineer — Node.js/TypeScript API

Lever, Inc.; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 56.000 - 84.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Fully remote (Europe)

Competitive salary

Equity participation (VSOP)

Profit sharing

40 hours per week

Flexible hours

Zusammenfassung

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer based in Switzerland to join a small, ambitious product team building financial tooling for hundreds of thousands of users.

You will own the central API and backend services, with a focus on Node.js and TypeScript, ensuring scalable, reliable, and fast systems. You will work in a fully remote, asynchronous environment across frontend, design, and product teams, contributing to MVPs and experiments while shaping the engineering foundations and future

Qualifikationen

• Several years of professional experience developing large-scale, scalable APIs and backend systems.
• Strong passion for API design and well-structured data models.
• Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience with databases and data technologies such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis, or Kafka.
• High standards for stability, developer experience, performance, and code quality.

Aufgaben

• Design, develop, and maintain central API and backend services, primarily using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Build fast, efficient services delivering data and calculations with great developer experience.
• Design intuitive APIs and data models for internal and end-user use.
• Scale backend systems and infrastructure while maintaining reliability and performance.
• Own the internal API as a product, ensuring stability, usability, and evolution.

Kenntnisse

Node.js

TypeScript

API design

End-to-end ownership

Communication (German)

Communication (English)

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

ClickHouse

Redis

Kafka

Jobbeschreibung

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer based in Switzerland to join a small, ambitious product team building financial tooling for hundreds of thousands of users.

You will own the central API and backend services, with a focus on Node.js and TypeScript, ensuring scalable, reliable, and fast systems. You will work in a fully remote, asynchronous environment across frontend, design, and product teams, contributing to MVPs and experiments while shaping the engineering foundations and future