Node.js/TypeScript Backend Engineer (Remote)

Jobgether SRL; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Equity participation

Profit sharing

Flexible remote work

40 hours per week

Job summary

Jobgether SRL partners with a company in the Netherlands to recruit a Backend Engineer. The role focuses on Node.js and TypeScript, building the central API and backend services used by hundreds of thousands of users to power data, calculations, and product experiences.

You will own backend systems as products, ensure reliability, and design scalable data models and APIs while working in a fully remote, asynchronous environment with collaboration across frontend, design, and product teams.

Qualifications

• Several years of professional experience developing large-scale, scalable APIs and backend systems.
• Strong passion for API design, with the ability to think clearly about interfaces, architecture, and well-structured data models.
• Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript.
• Strong experience with databases and data technologies such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis, or Kafka.
• High standards for stability, developer experience, performance, and code quality.
• Demonstrated ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects and deliver results across different technologies, services, and teams.
• Strong proactive communication skills in both German and English, with the ability to communicate clearly and precisely in a remote and partially asynchronous environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain the central API and backend services, primarily using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Build fast, efficient services that reliably deliver data and calculations while providing an excellent developer experience for client developers.
• Design intuitive APIs and elegant data models that abstract complexity for internal developers and end users.
• Scale backend systems and infrastructure supporting existing products while maintaining reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Help develop and validate new products, services, and ideas through rapid MVPs and technical experimentation.
• Treat the internal API as a product, taking ownership of its stability, usability, performance, and continued evolution.
• Debug and resolve production issues across the technology stack, staying close to the product and ensuring a robust technical foundation.
• Continuously improve engineering standards, tooling, development processes, and technical practices.
• Build scalable solutions that consistently meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Work closely with frontend, design, and product teams to deliver projects ranging from focused improvements to large-scale initiatives.
• Take end-to-end ownership of projects, coordinating across technologies, services, and stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

API design

Data modeling

Performance

Distributed systems

English

German

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

ClickHouse

Redis

Kafka

Job description

Jobgether SRL partners with a company in the Netherlands to recruit a Backend Engineer. The role focuses on Node.js and TypeScript, building the central API and backend services used by hundreds of thousands of users to power data, calculations, and product experiences.

You will own backend systems as products, ensure reliability, and design scalable data models and APIs while working in a fully remote, asynchronous environment with collaboration across frontend, design, and product teams.