Senior Node.js & TypeScript Backend Lead

Elbowcurve; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Elbowcurve is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, build, test, and operate scalable backend services using NodeJS and TypeScript. You will partner with the CTO to standardize the code review process, mentor engineers, and raise overall code quality through testing, CI/CD, and documentation.

You will lead multi-sprint technical delivery, translate product requirements into plans, and drive reliable, scalable system design with secure SDLC aligned to SOC 2 Type II practices.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience, including hands-on development with NodeJS and TypeScript.
• 4+ years of experience in design and architecture of new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
• Demonstrable experience leading technical projects: scoping, sequencing milestones, driving execution, and shipping to production.
• Experience operating production services: debugging, incident response, and improving observability and on-call readiness.
• Experience designing secure systems and applying secure SDLC practices aligned with SOC 2 Type II or similar compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate scalable backend services.
• Partner with CTO to run, improve, and standardize the code review process to ensure increasing quality without excessive overhead or single person bottlenecks.
• Review designs and code for peers; mentor engineers; and improve shared standards (testing, code quality, CI/CD, documentation).
• Lead the technical delivery of multi-sprint initiatives: translate product requirements into clear technical plans, milestones, and execution tradeoffs.
• Drive system design for reliability, performance, and scalability (e.g., idempotency, retries, rate-limiting, multi-tenant isolation, graceful degradation).
• Build secure, compliant solutions aligned to SOC 2 Type II practices (e.g., least privilege, audit logging, data handling, change management).
• Own production readiness: instrumentation/observability, operational playbooks, incident response participation, and post-incident improvements.

Skills

NodeJS

TypeScript

Code review

Mentoring

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

Job description

Elbowcurve is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, build, test, and operate scalable backend services using NodeJS and TypeScript. You will partner with the CTO to standardize the code review process, mentor engineers, and raise overall code quality through testing, CI/CD, and documentation.

You will lead multi-sprint technical delivery, translate product requirements into plans, and drive reliable, scalable system design with secure SDLC aligned to SOC 2 Type II practices.