Senior TypeScript Backend Engineer - Scale to Millions

Basic Fit; Tilburg; Hybrid; EUR 52,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office near Tilburg Central Station

Unlimited training to grow skills

Hybrid work: 4 days in office, 1 day W

Career growth opportunities

Salary €4,650–€6,650 gross/month

Travel reimbursement

Bicycle plan

Health insurance discount

Home-working allowance

Pension scheme

Gym access

Job summary

Basic-Fit, Tilburg, is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to shape scalable APIs and drive engineering decisions. You’ll work primarily on the backend, with occasional frontend work, collaborating with cross-functional teams across a European scale.

You’ll help set service level objectives, tackle complex bugs, and contribute to architecture. The role offers a hybrid work model with strong growth and AI tooling exploration opportunities.

Qualifications

• Proven problem solver with a software focus.
• Comfortable owning outcomes and risk.
• Thrives in collaboration and fast-moving environments.
• Eager to explore AI tooling in development workflows.
• Eligible to work in the Netherlands (no new visa sponsorship).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain APIs handling millions of requests.
• Define SLOs for APIs and systems.
• Drive structural improvements toward objectives.
• Contribute to frontend when needed.
• Support teams with documentation and architectural design.
• Help shape the long-term engineering roadmap.
• Co-own non-functional topics like security and performance.

Skills

Problem solving

Ownership

Collaboration

Fast-moving

AI tooling curiosity

Tools

React

TypeScript

Tailwind

Storybook

Service Workers

Next.js

Playwright

Nest.js

Prisma

Postgres

Redis

Azure EventGrid

Azure ServiceBus

Heroku

Azure DevOps

New Relic

Akamai

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Basic-Fit, Tilburg, is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to shape scalable APIs and drive engineering decisions. You’ll work primarily on the backend, with occasional frontend work, collaborating with cross-functional teams across a European scale.

You’ll help set service level objectives, tackle complex bugs, and contribute to architecture. The role offers a hybrid work model with strong growth and AI tooling exploration opportunities.