Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js, Typescript)

Who You Are You are a Senior Back-End Engineer joining a new product initiative. You will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable, reliable back-end systems that power web and mobile applications. You'll work closely with engineers, product managers, and infrastructure teams to design systems that are secure, high-performing, and built to scale. Your work will directly influence the architecture and evolution of new product offerings. What You'll Do - Design, build, and maintain scalable back-end services, APIs, and data systems that support web and mobile applications - Architect reliable, secure, and high-performance server-side solutions - Collaborate with front-end engineers, product managers, and infrastructure/DevOps teams to deliver end-to-end features - Ensure systems are built with best practices around code quality, testing, observability, and deployment - Contribute to architectural decisions across microservices and event-driven systems - Work with modern cloud and containerized environments to support scalable deployments - Leverage caching, messaging, and data pipelines where appropriate to improve system performance - Stay current with modern back-end engineering practices, distributed systems, and emerging technologies - Use AI tools and automation thoughtfully to improve engineering productivity and decision-making What We're Looking For - 7+ years of back-end engineering experience, including time in senior or lead roles - Strong experience building APIs and services using Node.js, TypeScript, and frameworks such as NestJS or Express - Solid understanding of SQL databases; exposure to NoSQL is a plus - Experience working with microservices and event-driven architectures - Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) - Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or similar containerization/orchestration tools - Working knowledge of caching strategies and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka or similar) - Experience using API tools such as Postman and version control systems like Git (or Bitbucket) - Strong engineering fundamentals around scalability, reliability, and system design Bonus Points - Experience working in early-stage or fast-moving product environments (zero-to-one builds) - Exposure to fintech, trading, brokerage, lending, or financial systems Originally posted on Himalayas