Senior Backend Engineer - TypeScript & Node.js for IoT APIs

Socket.dev; American Fork (UT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401k match

Flexible PTO

Job summary

LVT is seeking a Software Engineer II to build, scale, and maintain backend services powering our IoT and Agentic AI platforms. Based in American Fork, Utah, this full-time role emphasizes Node.js, TypeScript, REST/GraphQL APIs, and robust data pipelines.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, implement tests, monitor performance, and contribute to DevOps practices within an Agile team.

Qualifications

• 3-5 Years of Professional Software Engineering Experience: A proven track record of shipping production-grade, server-side code within a modern software engineering environment.
• Strong Server-Side TypeScript & Node.js Mastery: Hands-on experience building backend applications, microservices, or asynchronous architectures using Node.js and TypeScript.
• API Architecture Experience: Practical experience developing, documenting, and consuming APIs using REST patterns, GraphQL schemas, or gRPC.
• Solid Data Layer Competency: Strong working knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and experience utilizing ORMs or query builders (e.g., Knex, Prisma).
• Development & Infrastructure Tooling: Comfortable working with version control (Git), containerized environments (Docker), and participating in automated CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• System Testing & Reliability Practices: Practical understanding of backend testing frameworks, API testing methodologies, and basic application monitoring/logging strategies.
• Curious & Collaborative Mindset: A strong team-first attitude with a proactive drive to solve complex technical problems, expand backend skills, and accept mentorship from senior team members.

Responsibilities

• Backend Feature Delivery: Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable server-side TypeScript code utilizing Node.js and modern backend frameworks.
• API Development & Integration: Design, build, and maintain scalable RESTful and GraphQL API endpoints that ensure secure, efficient data communication between edge devices, internal microservices, and client interfaces.
• Data Layer Management: Work extensively with relational databases (such as MySQL), optimizing queries, managing schemas, and implementing ORM tools like Knex to maintain high data integrity and performance.
• Bug Resolution & Debugging: Investigate, reproduce, and resolve backend defects across the server architecture, ensuring continuous service stability and seamless platform performance.
• Testing & Quality Assurance: Write and execute robust unit and integration tests to guarantee server-side reliability, performance under load, and zero-regression deployments.
• Performance Monitoring & Observability: Utilize modern observability and logging tools to track backend system health, monitor API latencies, and proactively identify performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborative Teamwork: Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, backend design reviews, sprint planning, and constructive code reviews to elevate engineering quality across the team.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

REST APIs

GraphQL

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Knex

Prisma

Docker

CI/CD

Testing

Tools

Knex

Prisma

Docker

Git

Job description

LVT is seeking a Software Engineer II to build, scale, and maintain backend services powering our IoT and Agentic AI platforms. Based in American Fork, Utah, this full-time role emphasizes Node.js, TypeScript, REST/GraphQL APIs, and robust data pipelines.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, implement tests, monitor performance, and contribute to DevOps practices within an Agile team.