Senior Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Portugal.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain efficient, scalable, and clean backend services utilizing Node.js and TypeScript.

• Collaborate closely with product managers and frontend engineers to create new product features from ideation to deployment.

• Take ownership of significant components of the backend architecture, making essential decisions to improve performance, reliability, and security.

• Create thorough unit tests and perform detailed code reviews to ensure high code quality.

• Identify and implement system enhancements proactively, including refactoring legacy code as needed.

• Provide mentorship and share engineering knowledge with team members.

• Integrate AI into daily operations and explore ways to enhance engineering workflows through AI.

• Contribute to the checkout experience, donor portals, and analytics pipelines within a high-load distributed system.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of backend development experience, ideally in a product-focused environment.

• Strong practical experience with Node.js and modern frameworks such as Koa or NestJS.

• Profound knowledge of TypeScript, including advanced typing and module systems.

• Solid background in MongoDB or other NoSQL databases.

• Familiarity with event-driven architectures using tools like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Bull/Redis.

• Practical experience with ClickHouse or similar analytics databases and Elasticsearch.

• Comprehensive understanding of system design, clean architecture principles, and performance optimization techniques.

• Ability to work autonomously, take initiative, and complete projects successfully.

• Comfortable collaborating within a Russian-speaking team.

• Actively utilizing AI in daily tasks.

• Nice to have: experience in a remote-first, globally distributed environment.

• Nice to have: knowledge of performance monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.

• Nice to have: interest in the nonprofit technology sector.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity options.

• Private medical insurance for employees and their families.

• 22 paid vacation days annually.

• Up to 14 paid public holidays each year.

• 5 company-paid sick leave days.

• English language learning courses.

• Opportunities for relevant professional education.

• Access to a gym or swimming pool.

• Home Office Setup Assistance: the company provides support for purchasing furniture (office chair, desk, monitor) and other items to establish a comfortable work environment.

• Co-working options available.

• €50 monthly allowance for internet and mobile phone expenses.

• Remote working flexibility.