Remote Senior Node.js Backend Engineer - Cloud & Scale

encora10; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

encora10 is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design, develop and operate cloud-native services for streaming platforms. You will own modules end-to-end, deploy across AWS regions with ECS/EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and related services, and continually improve reliability with caching and scalable policies.

The role requires strong Node.js/TypeScript or equivalent backend experience, hands-on AWS skills, and a solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and observability within an Agile

Qualifications

• Around 4–5 years building and operating production software services.
• Strong Node.js and JavaScript or TypeScript experience, or backend experience in another language with ability to ramp up on Node.js.
• Practical AWS experience, especially with ECS and EC2.
• Understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and deployments across environments.
• Strong grounding in algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and performance tuning.
• Experience with distributed systems, REST or WebSocket APIs, observability, and Agile practices.
• Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain complex service modules and own components through operation.
• Deploy and run services across AWS regions using services such as ECS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Redis, Lambda, and CloudFront.
• Improve resilience and throughput with caching, retry and recovery mechanisms, and scaling policies.
• Investigate production incidents, identify root causes, and implement fixes.
• Contribute to architecture, technical planning, and roadmap discussions.
• Find opportunities to automate engineering workflows, including through AI assisted development tools.

Skills

Node.js

JavaScript/TypeScript

Backend development

AWS ECS/EC2

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Distributed systems

REST APIs/WebSocket

Observability

Agile practices

Algorithms & data structures

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

Harness

Docker

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools

HTTP/2

QUIC

Rust

Job description

encora10 is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design, develop and operate cloud-native services for streaming platforms. You will own modules end-to-end, deploy across AWS regions with ECS/EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and related services, and continually improve reliability with caching and scalable policies.

The role requires strong Node.js/TypeScript or equivalent backend experience, hands-on AWS skills, and a solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and observability within an Agile