Senior Node.js Backend Engineer — Remote, Lead API & Architecture

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

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.