Senior Backend Software Engineer (Node.js) - UK

Storyteq; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading creative technology company in the UK seeks an experienced backend engineer to develop robust services using TypeScript and Node.js. You will collaborate across teams to enhance system performance and scalability. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience and a passion for innovative technology solutions. The role includes benefits such as annual wellbeing days and a comprehensive pension scheme.

Benefits

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Annual Wellbeing Day

Pension Scheme

Corporate Medical Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Monthly Employee Awards

Charity Volunteer Day

Referral scheme

Interactive Wellbeing Workshops

Enhanced Family Friendly Leave

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend or full-stack development.
• Strong skills in backend development with Node.js.
• Experience with REST and/or GraphQL APIs.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship robust backend services.
• Ensure systems are scalable and performant.
• Collaborate across teams for service integration.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

REST APIs

GraphQL APIs

SQL/NoSQL databases

Data modeling

Collaboration

Job description

Overview

Hi, we are Storyteq!

Storyteq helps marketing and creative teams in top brands to scale their creative production and gain control over their marketing campaigns. Through our platform, our clients can streamline campaign workflows, automate their creative production through templates and AI, and activate engaging campaigns that go to market faster.

We believe creativity takes time, but creative production shouldn’t. Since 2016 our mission has been to revolutionize the way creative assets are created and used. Magic happens when we let technology empower creativity. Our endless curiosity and relentless commitment to our customers lies at the heart of our problem-solving approach. This shared mission is woven into our values: we dream big, think differently, and are stronger together.

About the job

You’ll likely join our Assets domain, where we’re scaling up to support a growing range of use cases—from intelligent asset search and real-time transformations to AI-powered tagging and seamless integration with our templating and distribution tools. You’ll work on the backend services that power our DAM platform at scale, ensuring fast, reliable, and intelligent asset delivery across the ecosystem.

Depending on your background and team fit, you might also contribute to other key domains such as Ad Building, Core Platform Engineering, or Developer Experience—each focused on solving complex, high-impact challenges that support our scale.

Key responsibilities

• Build and ship robust backend services with real product impact
• Ensure backend systems are scalable, performant and easy to maintain
• Collaborate across teams to integrate services and deliver end-to-end value
• Model business domains into clean, performant data structures
• Coach and mentor other engineers on best practices to help them grow
• Collaborate with other engineers and lead technical delivery on initiatives within a team or project
• Lead by example in engineering excellence, pragmatism and shared ownership
• Ensure backend systems are scalable, performant and easy to maintain

Key requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering backend or full-stack products with TypeScript (and JavaScript)
• Strong backend development skills with Node.js
• Solid experience designing and integrating REST and/or GraphQL APIs
• Comfortable working in monorepo environments and modular architectures
• Proficient in data modeling and working with SQL/NoSQL databases
• Familiar with testing practices, performance tuning, and scalable design principles
• Experience working in SaaS or product-based environments
• You’re proactive, result-driven, and excited to work in a fast-growing tech scale-up
• Confident in making architectural decisions and communicating trade-offs
• Comfortable mentoring and supporting engineers to help them grow
• Experience leading technical delivery within a team
• You’re a strong team player who values collaboration and shared success

Nice to have

• Hands-on with DAM concepts like versioning, metadata, and access control
• Designed or contributed to asset pipelines for processing, optimizing, and delivering media content
• Built systems for secure, performant asset access at scale

Benefits

• 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays – we understand the importance of you getting some downtime.
• Annual Wellbeing Day – an additional day on us to look after your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Pension Scheme – helping you save towards your retirement.
• Corporate Medical Cash Plan – claim back the cost of your medical treatments.
• So many savings – through our online community platform, access dozens of daily deals.
• Employee Assistance Programme – our people are at the heart of everything we do.
• Cycle to Work Scheme – save on the cost of biking to work.
• Monthly Employee Awards – Employee of the Month program with a £250 bonus.
• Raising money for charity including a paid Volunteer Day.
• Referral scheme – £1,000 for referring a candidate.
• Wellbeing Programme – interactive Wellbeing Workshops and Wellbeing Champions.
• Enhanced Family Friendly Leave – support for you and your family.

We Value Diversity

We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality. We are committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation and the wider industry. At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet, because we’re always stronger together.

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