Senior Backend Engineer - TypeScript/Node, Cloud & Data

Motion Recruitment; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Stock Options

Bonus eligible

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for a rapidly growing sleep technology company in Chicago. The role focuses on backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines powering consumer-facing experiences across hardware, software, and ML components.

You will own significant parts of the platform, work with distributed systems and microservices, and influence architecture as the company scales globally. Strong backend expertise and cloud proficiency are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years focused on backend engineering, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering.
• Experience building and supporting distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and services.
• Advanced proficiency in at least two of Ruby, Node.JS, TypeScript, etc.
• Experience with microservices architectures.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services powering connected hardware and cloud platforms.
• Lead cloud infrastructure and distributed systems design and optimization.
• Improve reliability, automation, and operations across production systems.
• Collaborate with product, infra, and data teams to scale platforms.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Microservices

Troubleshooting

Ruby/Node.js/TypeScript proficiency

Tools

Ruby

Node.js

TypeScript

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for a rapidly growing sleep technology company in Chicago. The role focuses on backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines powering consumer-facing experiences across hardware, software, and ML components.

You will own significant parts of the platform, work with distributed systems and microservices, and influence architecture as the company scales globally. Strong backend expertise and cloud proficiency are essential.