Backend Engineer (TypeScript/NestJS) - Kubernetes & CI/CD

PTC; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

PTC is seeking a highly capable Backend Engineer to join the Pipeline Squad for Jetstream, PTC's Atlas SaaS platform. You will own backend services from development to production, primarily with TypeScript, Node.js and NestJS.

You will also contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments with Docker/Kubernetes, and observability improvements, while collaborating with DevOps on infrastructure tasks such as Terraform and Azure.

Qualifications

• Strong backend development experience, ideally TypeScript/Node.js/NestJS.
• Good CI/CD experience, ideally GitLab CI.
• Good experience with Docker and some practical Kubernetes experience.
• Familiarity with observability, logging and monitoring practices.

Responsibilities

• Work on services from development through to deployment and running them in production.
• Build and maintain backend services, mainly using TypeScript, Node.js and NestJS.
• Help improve our GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including build, test, security and deployment.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm to deploy and troubleshoot our services.
• Improve developer tooling and workflows, particularly where we can remove manual work or make things simpler.
• Help improve observability, monitoring and debugging across our services.
• Work alongside DevOps on infrastructure and automation where needed, including things like Terraform and Azure.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

NestJS

CI/CD

Observability

Testing

Tools

GitLab CI

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure AKS

Job description

PTC is seeking a highly capable Backend Engineer to join the Pipeline Squad for Jetstream, PTC's Atlas SaaS platform. You will own backend services from development to production, primarily with TypeScript, Node.js and NestJS.

You will also contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments with Docker/Kubernetes, and observability improvements, while collaborating with DevOps on infrastructure tasks such as Terraform and Azure.