Senior Backend Engineer – Node.js

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +4 more locations.

📋 Description

• Design, enhance, and sustain Node.js backend services, modules, and APIs.

• Introduce new features to current Node.js modules while ensuring compatibility, reliability, and maintainability.

• Integrate Node.js services and modules with backend services, APIs, and platform components.

• Take ownership of complex backend functionalities from technical design through to implementation and delivery.

• Enhance and support existing backend services, including troubleshooting and resolving intricate production issues.

• Develop solutions that involve distributed systems, messaging and event streaming systems, caches, and NoSQL data stores.

• Write and maintain thorough unit and integration tests while improving test coverage and code quality.

• Participate in technical design and code evaluation processes.

• Identify opportunities to enhance maintainability, reliability, and engineering practices.

• Collaborate across teams with Product, engineers, and technical leads.

• Effectively and responsibly utilize AI-assisted development tools.

• Support Wordly's real-time translation services, which are delivered in over 50 languages.

⛳️ Requirements

• More than 5 years of practical backend engineering experience, particularly in developing and maintaining Node.js services and APIs.

• Solid hands-on experience with Node.js and JavaScript in production backend settings.

• Experience in extending and maintaining existing Node.js modules, services, and integrations.

• Familiarity with Node.js backend frameworks.

• Strong grasp of asynchronous programming and event-driven backend patterns.

• Extensive experience working in distributed systems and microservice architectures.

• Background in messaging and event streaming systems, NoSQL databases, distributed caches, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Significant experience in writing and maintaining unit and integration tests.

• Proficient in debugging and resolving complex issues within backend services.

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, or similar options.

• Familiarity with modern software development workflows, including version control and code review practices.

• Comfortable collaborating with a fully remote team.

• Self-driven and capable of independently delivering complex backend functionalities.

• A B.S. degree in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited institution is preferred.

• No visa sponsorship available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote position.

• Office space available in Los Altos, California for residents of the San Francisco Bay Area who wish to utilize it.