Remote Backend Engineer (TypeScript) - Banking API

swan.io; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Swan is looking for a Freelance Software Engineer to join our Banking Experience team. The Engineering group is the largest at Swan, building payments and customer-facing applications while prioritizing compliance, security, and resilience.

You will design with the product team the bank-by-API, own project work, and tackle performance challenges in a high-load environment. Fluency in English and strong TS/backend skills are essential.

Qualifications

• > At least 5 years as a Software Developer with a strong grasp of back-end systems and proficiency in TypeScript.
• > Backend optimization, observability, SQL queries, and query optimization.
• > CI/CD and automated testing; experience with distributed/microservice architectures.
• > Continuous learning and keeping up with the latest development trends.
• > Fluent in English and enthusiastic about open source and functional programming.

Responsibilities

• Be technically responsible for one or more projects.
• Solve problems in a demanding IT domain with a reactive architecture.
• Design the bank-by-API with the product team.
• Improve system performance under growing load.
• Ensure adherence to architecture rules and automated tests.

Skills

5+ years experience

TypeScript

Backend engineering

DevOps & architecture

English fluency

Tools

NodeJS

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Swan is looking for a Freelance Software Engineer to join our Banking Experience team. The Engineering group is the largest at Swan, building payments and customer-facing applications while prioritizing compliance, security, and resilience.

You will design with the product team the bank-by-API, own project work, and tackle performance challenges in a high-load environment. Fluency in English and strong TS/backend skills are essential.