Senior Node.js Backend Engineer

Vista Global; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Vista Global, the world’s leading business aviation company, is hiring a senior software engineer to own backend architecture and API design for scalable services. This permanent, full-time role offers a remote-first setup with strong autonomy and opportunities to influence product direction across global teams.

You will drive decisions on data models, databases, and CI/CD pipelines, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, UX, and Data to deliver robust solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• BS in Computer Science / Software Engineering.
• Able to articulate a technical position and lead a team through a decision.
• Strong backend experience with Node.js.
• Strong API design experience, including API security.
• Relational databases and schema design, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with AI development tools and modern development workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Take designs and loosely-defined problems and drive them to shipped features.
• Lead the team through key technical and architectural decisions.
• Build and maintain customer-facing features end-to-end across APIs, backend services, and data models.
• Design and evolve database schemas and data models.
• Develop scalable, secure APIs powering product experiences.
• Mentor teammates and raise the overall effectiveness of the engineering organization.
• Use AI-assisted tools to support development workflows.

Skills

Node.js

API design

PostgreSQL / SQL

CI/CD

AI development tools familiarity

Strong communicator

Product mindset

Education

BS in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Claude Code

Grafana

Kibana

ElastAlert

Job description

Work Base Remote

Position Type Permanent Full-Time

Job Profile

Vista is the world’s leading global business aviation company, providing worldwide business flight services through its network of subsidiaries and a team of over 4,000 experts. A global group headquartered in Dubai, Vista integrates a unique portfolio of companies to offer asset-free services that cover all key aspects of business aviation, including guaranteed and on-demand global flight coverage, subscription and membership solutions, and trading and management services.

A career at Vista means stepping into an environment where you’re trusted with real autonomy and responsibility from day one. Whether you're keeping our aircraft airworthy, flying our clients across the globe, or working in one of our corporate teams, you’ll move fast, deliver impact quickly, and grow through hands‑on learning and close collaboration within a supportive global community. You’ll play an active role in shaping a transforming organization by improving processes, challenging norms, and driving meaningful change. And throughout, you’ll take pride in making the impossible possible for a worldwide client base. Together you’ll build something extraordinary alongside colleagues who navigate challenges together, celebrate progress, and consistently raise the bar.

Your Responsibilities

• Take designs and loosely-defined problems and drive them to shipped features — defining scope, surfacing the right questions, and deciding what to build when the answer isn't obvious


• Lead the team through key technical and architectural decisions, building alignment and making the call when one is needed


• Build and maintain customer-facing features end-to-end across APIs, backend services, and data models


• Design and evolve database schemas and data models that support our client‑side app


• Develop scalable, secure APIs that power our product's application experiences


• Partner with Product, UX, and Data to translate user needs and designs into technical solutions — contributing your own point of view, not just executing


• Speak up in planning, design, and code reviews — raise concerns early and challenge assumptions


• Identify and resolve production issues through effective debugging and root‑cause analysis


• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability for backend services


• Mentor teammates and raise the overall effectiveness of the engineering organization


• Use AI-assisted tools where appropriate to support development workflows

Required Skills, Qualifications, and Experience

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, with a BS in Computer Science/ Software Engineering


• Track record of taking ambiguous problems or designs and independently deciding what and how to build


• A clear, outspoken communicator who can articulate a technical position, build consensus, and lead a team through a decision


• Strong backend experience with Node.js


• Strong API design experience, including API security


• Solid experience with relational databases and schema design, ideally PostgreSQL (SQL)


• Comfortable moving fluidly across the API and data layers


• Additional backend experience in Python or Java is a strong plus


• Strong product mindset, balancing technical excellence, speed, and customer value


• Familiarity with modern AI development tools (GitHub, Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) is a plus


• Experience with CI/CD pipelines


• Experience with metrics, monitoring, and alerting tools such as Grafana, Kibana, and ElastAlert

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