Senior TypeScript/Node Backend Engineer — Remote, Equity

Motion Recruitment; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

Flex PTO

Performance-based Equity

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a senior backend engineer for a fully remote role. You will design scalable APIs, lead microservice architectures, and mentor engineers while shipping real features for a fast-growing infra platform powering cross-border commerce.

The role requires 5+ years in TS/Node.js, strong API design, and the ability to work with EST hours. If you value ownership and fast-moving teams, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering using TypeScript and Node.js in production.
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs at scale in real environments.
• Proven track record of end-to-end services with full ownership.
• Strong system design skills and microservice architecture experience.
• Startup mentality with ownership, ambiguity, and fast delivery.

Responsibilities

• 60% Backend development with TS/Node.js/Nest.js.
• 20% System design and architecture work.
• 20% API integrations (Shopify, Magento, headless eCommerce).
• Mentor engineers and contribute to code quality and delivery.

Skills

Backend engineering

TypeScript

Node.js

API design

System design

Microservices

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

MongoDB

Infrastructure as Code

Quarkus

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a senior backend engineer for a fully remote role. You will design scalable APIs, lead microservice architectures, and mentor engineers while shipping real features for a fast-growing infra platform powering cross-border commerce.

The role requires 5+ years in TS/Node.js, strong API design, and the ability to work with EST hours. If you value ownership and fast-moving teams, we want to hear from you.