Senior Nodejs Developer

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to take full ownership of our backend services and the application’s production environment. In this role, you will ensure the reliability of APIs, databases, background jobs, and integrations while supporting the team in delivering safe and efficient updates. You will primarily work with TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js server components, oRPC, Zod, PostgreSQL, Prisma, and Better Auth. Our infrastructure runs on Google Cloud Run, supported by Cloud SQL and Cloud Tasks for database management and background processing.

Key Responsibilities
- Manage production application operations, including runtime configuration, feature flags, health checks, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Develop and maintain APIs, shared business logic, and database queries within a monorepo architecture.
- Plan and execute database migrations, investigate data integrity issues, and design safe, auditable recovery procedures.
- Maintain integrations for payment processing, email, storage, AI, and electronic signatures, including webhook handling, retries, and reconciliation processes.
- Enforce organizational and role-based permissions, safeguard sensitive data, and maintain audit trails for privileged actions.
- Lead incident diagnosis and remediation efforts, collaborating with DevOps on infrastructure issues, release readiness, and recovery strategies.
- Write comprehensive API, authorization, integration, and unit tests; conduct code reviews and mentor junior engineers.
- Keep operational runbooks and architectural documentation up to date.

Required Qualifications
- Typically 6+ years of backend engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and API design in production environments.
- Proven ability to operate SaaS applications, diagnose incidents, and enhance system reliability.
- Deep understanding of transactions, concurrency, idempotency, schema migrations, and data recovery best practices.
- Experience with authentication, authorization, multi-tenant systems, and secure handling of sensitive information.
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform or similar managed cloud infrastructure.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
Experience with Prisma or Drizzle, oRPC, Better Auth, Stripe Connect, background task queues, AI integrations, and pnpm/Turborepo monorepos is a plus.

We offer a fully remote work environment with the flexibility to choose when to work from home or the office. Work schedules are flexible to fit your lifestyle. Compensation is competitive within the market, and we emphasize continuous learning and professional growth opportunities.

Success in this role means delivering dependable backend services, understanding production behavior thoroughly, executing safe database changes, and effectively managing incident recovery.