Sr. Backend Node.js Engineer (U.S remote within CST OR EST time zone)

SourceDirect Talent; Town of Texas (WI); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SourceDirect Talent is seeking a Remote Senior Backend Node.js Engineer proficient in building and maintaining large-scale Node.js microservices. This role involves developing innovative digital experiences and requires strong skills in cloud services and collaboration in agile teams.

Ideal candidates will have over 4 years of experience and will leverage their Node.js expertise alongside the latest cloud technologies. This remote position allows flexibility while contributing to impactful projects.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building websites, APIs, or microservices.
• Experience in Node.js using ECMAScript modules, NPM, and Serverless Framework.
• Strong understanding of security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop digital experiences using Node.js.
• Collaborate in an application development project team using Scrum methodologies.
• Develop testable and efficient code for marketing and eCommerce websites.

Skills

Node.js development

API development

SQL/NoSQL databases

Cloud Web Services

Git usage

Job description

Sr. Backend Node.js Engineer (U.S remote within CST OR EST time zone)

Full-time

We've recently partnered with a US-based GlobalMarketing agency to seek a US-based Remote Senior Backend Engineer to develop and maintainlarge-scale Node.js microservices functional infrastructure, all running on Amazon Web Services.

Our client is one of the leaders in their space offering a great combination of competitive salary, and benefits.

Preferred location to be closer to the office within Dallas, Chicago, NY and or Virginia/Reston but this is a 100% remote role.

Responsibilities

• Be instrumental in developing digital experiences using cutting‑edge technology by leveraging your Node.js software development experience.
• Be a key part of an application development project team comprised of onshore and offshore developers using Scrum ceremonies and methodologies.
• Develop testable, reusable, and efficient code in Node.js for highly visible marketing and eCommerce Websites.
• Ensure timely completion of your coding assignments and deliverables, as well as provide system‑level documentation. Collaborate with Technical Managers to estimate specific work assignments, ensure the quality of your deliverables and provide status updates, and highlight issues.
• You will participate in all Scrum processes, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand‑ups, and Sprint Retrospectives.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building websites, APIs, or microservices.
• Creativity and experience developing best‑in‑class softwareapplications in Node.js usingECMAScript (ES) modules, NPM and Serverless Framework.
• Experience writing Node.js code that interacts with SQL or NoSQL databases.
• Worked in Cloud Web Services such as AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB.
• Hold strong notions of security best practices (e.g. using IAM Roles, Policies, KMS, etc.).
• Knowledgeable of working with git and shells in a terminal on daily basis.
• Skilledat setting your local development environment tooling and deploying code to a remote server environment.

Good to have

• BuiltRESTful services and troubleshotthem to HTTP protocol level.
• Experience in Cloud Web Services such as AWS API Gateway, Cognito, Secret Manager, RDS, EC2, ECS, Fargate, SQS, or similar.
• Used Node.js with Typescript.
• DevelopedLambda functions in Python.
• An understanding of Continuous Integration technologies and deployment frameworks (i.e. Node Package Manager, Docker, Jenkins).