NestJS Backend Engineer - Production-Driven Microservices

Productiv; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Productiv is seeking a proactive Backend Developer to own and improve a live microservices platform. You will investigate bugs, implement changes across services, and ship features with AI-assisted tooling while maintaining strong code quality.

You will work in a highly autonomous, production-focused environment, balancing incident response with feature delivery and ensuring robust integrations with ERP, CRM, and payment providers.

Qualifications

• Proven ownership from bug report to production solution.
• Experience building backend services with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Strong NestJS experience, including modules, controllers, services, DI, and middleware.
• Solid REST fundamentals: service-to-service, versioning, error handling.
• Relational databases experience; PostgreSQL queries and migrations.
• Debug distributed systems across multiple services using logs and metrics.
• Risk-aware judgment for local fixes vs rollouts in payments and live data.
• Experience integrating third-party systems (payments, CRMs, ERPs, identities).
• Understanding OAuth 2.0, JWT, SSO, and machine-to-machine auth.
• Comfortable with agentic development and AI coding tools.
• Ability to write tests that prevent regressions.
• Clear written and verbal communication for status updates and docs.

Responsibilities

• Resolve production issues across distributed microservices and trace requests end-to-end.
• Support incident response with root-cause analysis, fixes, and regression tests.
• Deliver enhancements to services, including payment adjustments and integrations.
• Work within a layered architecture from API gateway to adapters.
• Maintain integrations with external platforms (ERP, CRM, payment systems, email, cloud storage).
• Manage data changes with migration scripts and live-data testing.
• Collaborate with QA and product to clarify behavior and verify fixes.
• Improve observability and documentation; participate in code reviews.

Skills

Ownership

Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Authentication

Observability

Testing

AI coding

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Git

Job description

Productiv is seeking a proactive Backend Developer to own and improve a live microservices platform. You will investigate bugs, implement changes across services, and ship features with AI-assisted tooling while maintaining strong code quality.

You will work in a highly autonomous, production-focused environment, balancing incident response with feature delivery and ensuring robust integrations with ERP, CRM, and payment providers.