Node.js Developer

Egreenservices; Knoxville (TN); Remote; USD 86,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Public Affairs Institute in Knoxville, TN is hiring a Node.js Developer. You will own API quality, optimize REST/GraphQL services, and drive releases with a focus on scalability. The role offers a salary range of $86,000 to $125,000 with flexible remote options and a path for career growth.

Bring strong GraphQL and Go skills, a bias for action, and an ability to navigate ambiguity. A robust network in Knoxville is a plus to accelerate collaboration and impact.

Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of GraphQL and Go.
• Ability to work with ambiguous briefs and deliver focused results.
• Portfolio or work samples demonstrating technology expertise.

Responsibilities

• Own edge-case quality issues in API and system reliability.
• Trim cloud costs by right-sizing REST API infrastructure in Knoxville.
• Own the REST API release planning and execution.
• Untangle dependency knots slowing Knoxville releases.
• Reproduce and prevent fast-moving bugs from field reports.
• Rewrite customer service components to reduce technical debt.
• Scale GraphQL services from Knoxville pilot to TN-wide rollout.
• Decode undocumented Ansible service and bring it into the stack.

Skills

GraphQL

Go

Job description

Public Affairs Institute needs a Node.js Developer in TN who can argue passionately about Tailwind CSS, then commit to whatever the team decides. Step into a Node.js Developer position at Public Affairs Institute where $86,000 - $125,000, team support, and career growth come standard.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the quality-obsessed edge cases in Public Affairs Institute's Analytical Thinking billing nobody else wants to touch
• Trim Public Affairs Institute's cloud bill by right-sizing the REST API infrastructure in Knoxville, TN
• Own the REST API release that Knoxville leadership has circled on the calendar
• Untangle the Analytical Thinking dependency knots that have slowed Knoxville releases for months
• Reproduce the fast-moving bug from the Knoxville field report, then make it impossible again
• Ship the Customer Service high-growth rewrite that pays down years of Public Affairs Institute technical debt
• Scale Public Affairs Institute's GraphQL services from Knoxville pilot to TN-wide rollout
• Decode the undocumented Ansible service nobody at Public Affairs Institute remembers writing

What You'll Bring

• Strong working knowledge of GraphQL and Go
• A solutions-focused bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait
• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written
• A Knoxville network, or the hustle to build one from scratch
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your technology expertise

The story of Public Affairs Institute is really the story of Knoxville, TN betting on an experiment-friendly idea about technology and being proven right. At Public Affairs Institute feedback has a short half-life, delivered close to the moment it can still help.

Secure $86,000 - $125,000, flexible remote options, equity, and a mentorship program designed to help you reach the next senior.

We touched the timestamp today; the Node.js Developer hunt continues in earnest.

Bring 5 of grit or a fresh perspective; either way, this Node.js Developer role wants you.