Senior Backend Engineer - TypeScript/Node.js (Remote)

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC; Florida; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Machine Learning Technologies LLC is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to develop headless APIs, search indexing services, and MCP integrations for Adobe Content Finder. You will build secure backend services enabling AI agents and consuming apps to discover content via PostgreSQL-backed service layers.

The ideal candidate has strong production experience with TypeScript and Node.js, API architecture, search and retrieval systems, MCP server development, and permission-aware data

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with backend focus.
• Strong production TypeScript and Node.js expertise.
• Experience designing REST APIs and service interfaces.
• Experience with authentication and permission-aware data access.
• Hands-on MCP server development and integrations.
• PostgreSQL and SQL proficiency.
• Experience with testing, observability, containers, and deployment recovery.
• Clear written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable TypeScript and Node.js services for content discovery, search, and retrieval.
• Develop APIs with versioned contracts, pagination, input validation, structured responses, and consistent error handling.
• Build and maintain search indexes, including incremental updates, versioning, rebuilds, freshness monitoring, and relevance evaluation.
• Implement MCP server tools with validated input schemas, bounded capabilities, structured outputs, and predictable failure behavior.
• Enforce caller identity and authorization across API, search, retrieval, and MCP execution paths.
• Protect database credentials and prevent direct database access or unrestricted SQL exposure to consumers and AI agents.
• Use PostgreSQL and SQL for data modeling, query analysis, stable identifiers, data quality validation, and provenance.
• Build automated unit, integration, and contract tests.
• Implement logging, metrics, tracing, performance diagnostics, and production monitoring.
• Support containerized deployments, safe rollbacks, operational recovery, technical documentation, and maintainable integration examples.
• Collaborate with platform, product, and engineering teams to deliver dependable services.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

REST APIs

Authentication

MCP servers

PostgreSQL

Testing

Containerization

Security

Tools

Azure Container Apps

Azure Blob Storage

Job description

Machine Learning Technologies LLC is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to develop headless APIs, search indexing services, and MCP integrations for Adobe Content Finder. You will build secure backend services enabling AI agents and consuming apps to discover content via PostgreSQL-backed service layers.

The ideal candidate has strong production experience with TypeScript and Node.js, API architecture, search and retrieval systems, MCP server development, and permission-aware data