Senior Backend Engineer Job - Fully Remote Role | Node.js

Remotebase; United States; Remoto; USD 120.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Fully remote with office optional

Flexible timings

Market competitive compensation (in $$

Insane learning and growth

Descrizione del lavoro

Remotebase is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own production operations, build and maintain APIs, and ensure reliable data flows in a SaaS environment. You will work with TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and cloud infrastructure to drive robust, scalable backend services.

You will mentor peers, implement secure multi-tenant design, and lead incident responses while keeping runbooks and architecture up to date. This role is fully remote with flexible scheduling.

Competenze

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience or equivalent expertise.
• Strong production experience with TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and API design.
• Experience operating a SaaS application and diagnosing incidents to improve reliability.
• Judgment around transactions, concurrency, idempotency, schema migrations, and data recovery.
• Experience with authentication, authorization, multi-tenant systems, and handling sensitive data.
• Familiarity with GCP or comparable managed cloud infrastructure.

Mansioni

• Own production application operations including runtime configuration, feature flags, health checks, performance, and troubleshooting.
• Build and maintain APIs, shared business logic, and database queries within the monorepo.
• Plan and validate database migrations and develop safe recovery procedures.
• Maintain integrations for payments, email, storage, AI, and e-signature with webhook retries and reconciliation.
• Enforce permissions, protect sensitive data, and maintain audit coverage for privileged actions.
• Lead incident diagnosis and remediation with DevOps for infrastructure, release readiness, and recovery.
• Write tests and review code; mentor other engineers.
• Keep runbooks and architectural documentation current.

Conoscenze

TypeScript

Node.js

PostgreSQL

API design

SaaS operations

Cloud familiarity

Strumenti

Prisma

Drizzle

oRPC

Better Auth

Stripe Connect

pnpm/Turborepo

Descrizione del lavoro

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build and maintain our backend services and take ownership of the application’s production environment. You’ll ensure that APIs, databases, background jobs, and integrations operate reliably, while helping the team deliver changes safely.

You’ll work primarily with TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js server components and route handlers, oRPC, Zod, PostgreSQL, Prisma, and Better Auth. Our application runs on Google Cloud Run, with Cloud SQL and Cloud Tasks supporting database and background processing.

Job Description:

• Own production application operations, including runtime configuration, feature flags, health checks, performance, and troubleshooting.
• Build and maintain APIs, shared business logic, and database queries within our existing monorepo architecture.
• Plan and validate database migrations, investigate data integrity issues, and develop safe, auditable recovery procedures.
• Maintain reliable payment, email, storage, AI, and electronic signature integrations, including webhook handling, retries, and reconciliation.
• Enforce organization and role permissions, protect sensitive records, and maintain audit coverage for privileged actions.
• Lead application incident diagnosis and remediation, working with DevOps on infrastructure issues, release readiness, and recovery.
• Write meaningful API, authorization, integration, and unit tests; review code and mentor other engineers.
• Keep operational runbooks and architectural documentation current.

Requirements

• Typically 6+ years of backend engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• Strong production experience with TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and API design.
• Experience operating a SaaS application, diagnosing incidents, and improving reliability.
• Sound judgment around transactions, concurrency, idempotency, schema migrations, and data recovery.
• Experience with authentication, authorization, multi-tenant systems, and secure handling of sensitive data.
• Familiarity with GCP or comparable managed cloud infrastructure.

Nice to Have:

Prisma or Drizzle, oRPC, Better Auth, Stripe Connect, background task queues, AI integrations, and pnpm/Turborepo monorepos.

Success in this role means dependable backend services, understood production behavior, safe database changes, and effective incident recovery.

Benefits

In addition to a market competitive compensation, we have a reward philosophy that expand beyond this.

• Fully remote with office optional. You decide when you would like to work from home and when from the office.
• Flexible timings. You decide your work scheduled.
• Market competitive compensation (in $$).
• Insane learning and growth