Remote Backend Engineer (TypeScript/Node.js + AI)

Stott and May; Greater London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Stott and May seeks a Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services using TypeScript and Node.js, with a focus on AI-assisted development and secure, high-availability systems.

You will work within a cross-functional team to develop APIs, contribute to architecture decisions, and leverage event-driven microservices, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and AI tools to boost productivity and delivery.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with Node.js, TypeScript and recent AI & coding agents.
• Experience with distributed messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS or similar.
• Experience within event-driven and microservices architecture environments.
• Ability to work within a cross-functional, start-up environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Develop APIs and integrations that support customer-facing and internal products.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and technical decision-making.
• Build scalable, secure and resilient distributed systems.
• Support, improve and extend existing applications and services.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

AI tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQS

Microservices

Event-driven

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQS

Job description

Stott and May seeks a Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services using TypeScript and Node.js, with a focus on AI-assisted development and secure, high-availability systems.

You will work within a cross-functional team to develop APIs, contribute to architecture decisions, and leverage event-driven microservices, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and AI tools to boost productivity and delivery.