Senior Backend Engineer, Node Focused

3 weeks ago


Redwood City, California, United States Pop-Up Talent Full time
Job Description

At Pop-Up Talent, we're seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer, Node Focused to join our team. As a key member of our engineering team, you will design, develop, and implement scalable backend systems using the Node language stack, TypeScript, and NestJS to solve complex challenges. Your expertise in API design, Node optimization, and distributed systems will drive the development of efficient, scalable services, ensuring alignment with both business and technical requirements while continuously improving backend architecture and performance.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop, and implement a wide range of backend systems, processes, and platforms, leveraging your expertise in the Node language stack, TypeScript, and NestJS to solve complex problems from end to end.
  • Ensure adherence to engineering standards, including security, performance, and scalability, while maintaining consistency with best practices across development processes.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, design, infrastructure, and operations, to brainstorm and deliver solutions that meet both internal and external stakeholders' needs.
  • Utilize messaging systems (e.g., Azure Service Bus, Kafka, RabbitMQ) and pub/sub frameworks to develop asynchronous, resilient microservices.
  • Use profiling tools to monitor and optimize Node based services, focusing on language optimization to ensure the application runs efficiently at scale.

What You'll Achieve:

In the first month, you will complete product and engineering architecture walkthroughs, gaining a strong understanding of backend systems, Github action setup, and the tech stack, including Node language-based services and NestJS. You will shadow ongoing projects and collaborate with peers to accelerate your onboarding process. Within three months, you will become a key contributor to feature development, focusing on NestJS-based backend services. You will establish and promote best practices for backend API services, identifying performance bottlenecks and optimizing web application performance. Within six months, you will be recognized as a subject matter expert in your domain, providing guidance and mentorship to engineers across the team. You will drive the ideation and development of backend services, collaborating closely with internal stakeholders. You will play a critical role in hiring, conducting interviews, and helping to grow the backend engineering team.

About the Team:

You will be part of a high-caliber engineering team focused on building and maintaining critical backend services. Our team works cross-functionally across multiple squads to deliver REST, GraphQL APIs, and microservices that drive our products. We utilize modern technologies, including NestJS, Node language stack, and NextJS, to build scalable, high-performance services for both internal and external users. We are a no-ego bunch, and super excited to build an awesome team in a category-creating company together.

Our Values:

We live by the 4 Hs: Humble experts, Hungry for the opportunity, Intellectually honest, and Operating as one happy team. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace committed to building a team culture that celebrates learning, diversity, and inclusion. If you're hungry to grow your skills while growing a company, your sense of urgency matches the size of our market opportunity, and you value and enable teammates' contributions, then come join us.

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