Remote Senior Backend Tech Lead - TypeScript/Node.js, Fintech

Jobgether; Poland; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work environment

Full-time opportunity

Influence over backend architecture

Forex fintech focus

AI-assisted development

Collaborative engineering culture

Mentorship and growth opportunities

Job summary

Jobgether, a partner fintech, seeks a Technical Leader (Fullstack Backend focused) in Poland to shape backend architecture, set engineering standards, and drive the roadmap while staying hands-on. You will lead a team to build scalable APIs and distributed systems with TypeScript and Node.js, collaborate across Product, Frontend and DevOps, and apply AI-enabled practices to boost velocity and quality.

This high-impact role offers ownership, modern cloud tech, and opportunities to influence

Qualifications

• 6+ years backend development experience, with at least 4 years in a technical leadership or lead engineering role.
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, and backend frameworks such as NestJS or Express.js.
• Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable APIs, backend services, and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, data modeling, and query optimization.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, along with containerization, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of engineers while establishing strong engineering practices, coding standards, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product, Frontend, DevOps, and other teams to define and deliver scalable technical solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Architect, develop, and maintain high-performing backend services and APIs using TypeScript, Node.js, and modern backend frameworks.
• Design systems for high availability, strong performance, security, scalability, and zero-downtime deployment.
• Own backend technical direction and roadmap decisions, balancing immediate delivery requirements with long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Strengthen system reliability through effective testing, monitoring, logging, observability, incident management, and performance optimization.
• Leverage AI tools, automation, and emerging technologies to improve developer productivity, engineering workflows, and end-user experiences.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies where they can meaningfully improve the platform, development process, or product.
• Translate business and product requirements into robust backend architectures and serve as a bridge between engineering and product stakeholders.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

NestJS

Express.js

APIs

Databases

Cloud AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Kafka

AI tools

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kafka

CI/CD Pipelines

Terraform

Job description

Jobgether, a partner fintech, seeks a Technical Leader (Fullstack Backend focused) in Poland to shape backend architecture, set engineering standards, and drive the roadmap while staying hands-on. You will lead a team to build scalable APIs and distributed systems with TypeScript and Node.js, collaborate across Product, Frontend and DevOps, and apply AI-enabled practices to boost velocity and quality.

This high-impact role offers ownership, modern cloud tech, and opportunities to influence