Job Description
Senior Node.js Backend Engineer Contract: 12 months Hours: UK/ CET Rate: $300 USD per day Location: Fully Remote Overview We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to take ownership of core platform services, helping evolve an existing AWS-based system into a more scalable, modular architecture. This is a hands-on product backend role with real responsibility over performance, reliability, and system design. What you’ll do Migrate existing serverless logic into a modular NestJS backend Build and maintain backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, and NestJS Lead MySQL / Aurora performance optimisation (queries, indexing, scaling, reliability) Improve system scalability and stability across AWS infrastructure Contribute to observability (Grafana) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) Work closely with product and engineering to ship high-quality backend features Tech Stack Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript MySQL (Aurora), Redis AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront) Terraform...