Remote Backend Engineer — TypeScript & NestJS

Pragmatike; Utah; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pragmatike is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale integration-heavy backend services using TypeScript and NestJS. You will work on high-throughput workflows and distributed systems that process large volumes of transactions and data.

You'll collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions while embracing ownership in a remote-friendly environment. Strong emphasis on observability, API design, and platform evolution.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and experience building production systems with NestJS or similar Node.js frameworks.
• Proven experience designing and building scalable APIs and backend services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing.
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs, webhooks, and external platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using TypeScript and NestJS.
• Architect and implement scalable APIs, integrations, and event-driven systems.
• Build and optimize high-throughput workflows that process large volumes of transactions and data.
• Design data models, service architectures, and integration patterns for complex distributed systems.
• Develop reliable asynchronous processing systems using queues, workers, and background jobs.
• Collaborate with Product and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Improve platform reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Implement observability best practices, including logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Contribute to API design, developer experience, documentation, and internal tooling.
• Participate in architectural discussions and influence long-term platform strategy.
• Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and code quality.
• Take ownership of projects from design through deployment and ongoing optimization.

Skills

TypeScript

NestJS

API design

Distributed systems

Observability

Async processing

Tools

BullMQ

Next.js

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Pragmatike is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale integration-heavy backend services using TypeScript and NestJS. You will work on high-throughput workflows and distributed systems that process large volumes of transactions and data.

You'll collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions while embracing ownership in a remote-friendly environment. Strong emphasis on observability, API design, and platform evolution.