Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Node.js/AWS

Jobgether; Ireland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Well-being support

Sports benefits

Learning budget

Paid vacation

Paid sick leave

Public holidays paid

Job summary

Jobgether, on behalf of our partner, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer based in Ireland. You will own backend platforms, APIs, and real-time features, mainly using Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, and AWS, in a remote, autonomous role.

Collaborate with product and QA, design scalable cloud-native services, ensure data integrity, and contribute to architectural decisions in a mobile-first product environment.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional backend development experience using Node.js.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and NestJS.
• Demonstrated experience building backend services and self-documented APIs with NestJS, using GraphQL and/or REST.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, NoSQL databases, and cloud-native application development.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, particularly ECS, DynamoDB, SQS, EventBridge, and PostgreSQL.
• Practical experience developing real-time features using WebSockets.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Sentry, Datadog, CloudWatch, and Amplitude.
• Experience writing reliable unit and integration tests.
• Previous experience in a mobile-first organization, with product requirement understanding from engineering.
• Full professional proficiency in English.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services using cloud-first architectures, NoSQL databases, and event-driven technologies.
• Investigate complex backend issues, lead technical troubleshooting, identify root causes, and define paths toward resolution.
• Optimize system performance, reliability, availability, and data integrity at scale.
• Build and maintain APIs using NestJS, GraphQL, and REST.
• Develop real-time features using WebSockets.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction, working independently.
• Collaborate with Product and QA to deliver high-quality features.
• Implement unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.
• Apply observability and monitoring to identify issues and improve resilience.
• Understand the product and mobile-first context to support user and business needs.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

GraphQL

REST

WebSockets

Cloud architecture

AWS

NoSQL databases

Observability

Testing

English proficiency

Tools

AWS

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

SQS

EventBridge

Terraform

Apollo

Firebase Authentication

Stream Chat

Cloudflare

Snowflake

React Native

Job description

Jobgether, on behalf of our partner, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer based in Ireland. You will own backend platforms, APIs, and real-time features, mainly using Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, and AWS, in a remote, autonomous role.

Collaborate with product and QA, design scalable cloud-native services, ensure data integrity, and contribute to architectural decisions in a mobile-first product environment.