Senior Backend Engineer – Remote, Flexible Hours

AgileEngine, LLC.; Warszawa; In loco; PLN 433.000 - 669.000; Tempo pieno

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Professional growth

Competitive USD-based pay with budgets

Exciting projects

Flextime

Descrizione del lavoro

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale the backend of a high-traffic gaming companion site. You’ll work with TypeScript on Node.js, design and optimize REST and GraphQL APIs, and manage PostgreSQL/MySQL databases, Redis caching and analytics pipelines.

You’ll deploy with Docker, GitHub Actions and Kubernetes, integrate third‑party services, and collaborate with AI coding agents to keep code safe, fast and maintainable for Remix/Next.js frontends.

Competenze

• 5+ years of backend development with TypeScript on Node.js.
• Strong command of TypeScript’s type system (generics, inference, discriminated unions, narrowing).
• Schema validation experience with Zod or similar.
• Strong SQL skills in PostgreSQL and/or MySQL: schema design, indexing, query plans, migrations on live data, transactions and locking.
• Experience running an analytical database at production volume (ClickHouse preferred; BigQuery, Druid or similar also count).
• Experience designing caching: Redis or a compatible store, invalidation strategies, HTTP cache headers, CDN behavior.
• Experience designing and consuming REST and GraphQL APIs, including authentication and rate limiting.
• Experience with background jobs and message queues, including handling jobs that run twice or don’t run at all.
• Experience with high-volume, user-facing production applications.
• Experience taking a product from idea to production.
• Proficiency with agentic AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor or similar): daily, hands-on use in a real codebase, and good judgment about when their output needs checking.
• Comfortable reading and changing React code when a feature reaches the frontend.
• Able to work well in a startup-style, fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Flexible about working hours: some game launches happen in the evening or on weekends and need coverage outside the standard 9-to-5.
• Passion for gaming.

Mansioni

• Build and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript (Fastify, Hono) for user profiles, subscriptions and game data, including authentication, rate limits and typed contracts.
• Design schemas and write queries for PostgreSQL and MySQL (Prisma, Drizzle), including versioned game data, player builds and migrations on tables in live use.
• Run ClickHouse analytics pipelines: request logs, materialized views, article and revenue metrics, and the queries behind dashboards.
• Own the cache layers end to end: Redis-compatible stores, query caching, tag-invalidated cache, HTTP headers and CDN purges.
• Build and run scheduled jobs and queue consumers (NATS) for game data sync, leaderboards, Meilisearch indexing, sitemaps, Stripe webhooks, payouts and data-deletion requests.
• Integrate third-party APIs (Stripe, Discord, Blizzard, IGDB, Steam, YouTube), handling retries, backoff and rate limits.
• Process game images into map tiles, sprite sheets and responsive image sizes.
• Keep responses lean for Remix and Next.js pages to improve time to first byte, PageSpeed and SEO.
• Work with AI coding agents every day: direct them, review their output, and maintain the guardrails that make their changes safe to merge (tests, lint rules, build checks, agent instructions).
• Deploy through Docker, GitHub Actions and Kubernetes.
• Support high-traffic game launches, including outside regular hours when needed.

Conoscenze

Backend development with TypeScript on

TypeScript type system

Schema validation

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Redis caching

REST/GraphQL APIs

Analytics DB (ClickHouse)

Background jobs/queues

High-volume production apps

Product to production

AI coding tools

Frontend React familiarity

Startup-paced environment

Gaming passion

Strumenti

Prisma

Drizzle

Fastify

Hono

Meilisearch

NATS

Stripe

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Descrizione del lavoro

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale the backend of a high-traffic gaming companion site. You’ll work with TypeScript on Node.js, design and optimize REST and GraphQL APIs, and manage PostgreSQL/MySQL databases, Redis caching and analytics pipelines.

You’ll deploy with Docker, GitHub Actions and Kubernetes, integrate third‑party services, and collaborate with AI coding agents to keep code safe, fast and maintainable for Remix/Next.js frontends.