Senior Backend Engineer - TypeScript & Postgres (Remote)

Prisma Data, Inc.; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A cutting-edge data infrastructure company in Greater London seeks a software engineer to work with its Prisma Data Platform team. You will contribute across the stack, implementing and deploying sophisticated technologies. Ideal candidates have over 8 years in software engineering, particularly with TypeScript, NodeJS, and Golang. The position offers flexibility, strong pay, competitive benefits, and a supportive, collaborative culture. Fully remote work is an option, and there are generous vacation and parental leave policies.

Benefits

Strong pay

Flexibility in working hours

Generous time off

Parental benefits

Mental health support

Tech and ergonomic budget

Annual offsites

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in agile software engineering teams delivering robust web applications.
• Experience in building and scaling distributed systems, familiarity with bare metal servers.
• Experience with SQL / NoSQL databases and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Implement and deploy a websocket server for Prisma Postgres connections.
• Define protocols for the ORM team for the server's client adapter.
• Choose and deploy a globally distributed configuration store for authentication secrets.
• Improve automation of bare metal servers to reduce provisioning times.
• Troubleshoot customer connectivity issues.

Skills

TypeScript

NodeJS

Golang

Distributed systems

Database technologies

Cloud services

APIs (GraphQL / REST)

Communication skills

Job description

A cutting-edge data infrastructure company in Greater London seeks a software engineer to work with its Prisma Data Platform team. You will contribute across the stack, implementing and deploying sophisticated technologies. Ideal candidates have over 8 years in software engineering, particularly with TypeScript, NodeJS, and Golang. The position offers flexibility, strong pay, competitive benefits, and a supportive, collaborative culture. Fully remote work is an option, and there are generous vacation and parental leave policies.