Lead Backend Engineer — Ownership, Scalable Node/TS, Hybrid

Howrecruit; England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing tech company in the UK seeks a Senior / Lead Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services in Node.js and TypeScript. With a strong emphasis on ownership and autonomy, you'll develop key APIs and platform components while solving performance and reliability challenges. This role emphasizes real product impact and offers the chance to work in a dynamic, smart engineering team. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of experience and a strong grasp of backend systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong with Node.js, TypeScript, and API design.
• A real interest in product engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services in Node.js + TypeScript.
• Own systems end-to-end from architecture to deployment and monitoring.
• Develop APIs and platform components used across multiple products.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Node.js

TypeScript

API design

Architectural judgement

Tools

PostgreSQL

Event-driven systems

Microservices

Job description

A fast-growing tech company in the UK seeks a Senior / Lead Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services in Node.js and TypeScript. With a strong emphasis on ownership and autonomy, you'll develop key APIs and platform components while solving performance and reliability challenges. This role emphasizes real product impact and offers the chance to work in a dynamic, smart engineering team. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of experience and a strong grasp of backend systems.