Remote Backend Engineer: High-Performance Systems

Pulse Group; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Pulse Group is seeking a skilled backend engineer to design and build high-performance services using Node.js and TypeScript. You’ll contribute to scalable distributed systems and event-driven architectures, solving performance and optimisation challenges while delivering reliable APIs and backend platforms.

In this role you’ll work with senior engineers on architecture and technical strategy, improve observability and operational performance, and adapt solutions as requirements evolve in a

Qualifications

• Experience building production APIs and backend services.
• Experience with distributed systems or event-driven architectures.
• Experience working within cloud environments (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong understanding of software architecture and system design.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building high-performance services using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Creating scalable distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Solving performance and optimisation challenges.
• Building reliable APIs and backend platforms.
• Designing solutions for real-world engineering problems with evolving requirements.
• Working closely with senior engineers on architecture and technical strategy.
• Improving observability, reliability and operational performance.

Skills

Data structures

Algorithms

Complexity analysis

Scalability

Performance optimisation

Engineering trade-offs

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

WebSockets

React

Next.js

Job description

Pulse Group is seeking a skilled backend engineer to design and build high-performance services using Node.js and TypeScript. You’ll contribute to scalable distributed systems and event-driven architectures, solving performance and optimisation challenges while delivering reliable APIs and backend platforms.

In this role you’ll work with senior engineers on architecture and technical strategy, improve observability and operational performance, and adapt solutions as requirements evolve in a