Senior Platform Engineer - Data Platform & APIs

Eightelevengroup; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 186,252,000 - 229,233,000; Full time

Job summary

Eightelevengroup in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale backend services that power an enterprise data platform. This hybrid, contract-to-hire role offers hands-on work in platform systems, infrastructure, and operational tooling within a collaborative, mentorship-driven team.

You will use Node.js and TypeScript to develop APIs, contribute to a modular service-oriented architecture, and improve CI/CD pipelines, testing, and governance integrations

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience building backend services or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with unit and integration testing.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and modern development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Support the development of modular, service-oriented architecture for data ingestion, transformation, and access.
• Integrate platform services with data contracts, schema validation, metadata, lineage, and governance systems.
• Write clean, testable code with an emphasis on unit and integration testing.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Participate in design and code reviews, learning and applying engineering best practices.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues in development and production environments.
• Collaborate with engineers across platform, data, and governance teams.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

API development

Backend services

Distributed systems

Testing

CI/CD

Job description

Eightelevengroup in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale backend services that power an enterprise data platform. This hybrid, contract-to-hire role offers hands-on work in platform systems, infrastructure, and operational tooling within a collaborative, mentorship-driven team.

You will use Node.js and TypeScript to develop APIs, contribute to a modular service-oriented architecture, and improve CI/CD pipelines, testing, and governance integrations