Senior Backend Engineer – TypeScript & MongoDB (Hybrid/Remote)

RealWork Labs Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Dental & Vision

Job summary

RealWork in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Backend Software Engineer to own backend work on a MERN-stack platform. You will design REST/RPC APIs, work with a fast-paced team, and keep a strong focus on quality, testing, and scalable architecture.

You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to refine scope, mentor teammates on SOLID/DRY, and contribute to product development in a growing startup environment.

Qualifications

• Define and refine product requirements from input from stakeholders.
• Translate behavioral and UX specifications into technical requirements and scopes; lead a development team.
• Conversational fluency in AWS and cloud computing concepts is required.
• Strong coding experience.
• You can teach SOLID and DRY principles and know when to break them.
• Knowledge of refactoring strategies (Martin Fowler) is a plus.
• Explain pros/cons of synchronous and asynchronous systems.
• Experience building REST/RPC APIs with TypeScript, NodeJS and MongoDB.
• Professional experience building products with TS, NodeJS and MongoDB is required.
• Terraform CI/CD is preferred.
• Frontend experience with React/Preact is preferred.
• Startup experience is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science preferred.

Responsibilities

• Help define and refine product requirements with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Lead a development team to execute technical scopes from design to delivery.
• Build and maintain REST/RPC APIs with a TypeScript/NodeJS/MongoDB stack.
• Own the full SDLC on per-project basis in a fast-moving platform.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to keep quality and accountability high.

Skills

TypeScript

NodeJS

MongoDB

REST APIs

AWS

CI/CD

React/Preact

SOLID/DRY

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Job description

RealWork in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Backend Software Engineer to own backend work on a MERN-stack platform. You will design REST/RPC APIs, work with a fast-paced team, and keep a strong focus on quality, testing, and scalable architecture.

You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to refine scope, mentor teammates on SOLID/DRY, and contribute to product development in a growing startup environment.