Remote Backend Engineer - TypeScript/NestJS & Scalable APIs

Pragmatike; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pragmatike is recruiting a Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale high-volume, integration-heavy backend services. You will work with TypeScript and NestJS to create scalable APIs and data models for mission-critical workflows used by customers worldwide.

Join a high-ownership engineering culture focused on rapid delivery, reliability, and observability. The role is remote within the United States, with collaboration across Product, Engineering, and Operations teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional 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.
• Solid system design skills and the ability to architect solutions that handle significant scale and complexity.
• Experience working with observability tools, monitoring systems, and production troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, testing, and maintainability.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
• A proactive, ownership-driven mindset with the ability to work independently in a remote environment.

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

API design

Distributed systems

Asynchronous processing

Observability

Third-party integrations

Communication

Remote collaboration

Tools

NestJS

Node.js

BullMQ

Next.js

Job description

Pragmatike is recruiting a Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale high-volume, integration-heavy backend services. You will work with TypeScript and NestJS to create scalable APIs and data models for mission-critical workflows used by customers worldwide.

Join a high-ownership engineering culture focused on rapid delivery, reliability, and observability. The role is remote within the United States, with collaboration across Product, Engineering, and Operations teams.