Hybrid Senior Backend Engineer, Node.js/TypeScript

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About the role

  • Design, build and enhance features for the company game platform focusing on services used by game teams
  • Lead extraction of loosely coupled Node.js/TypeScript microservices from a PHP monolith
  • Run services on a distributed architecture in Google Cloud and ensure stability, performance, scalability, security and maintainability
  • Take ownership of maintaining and extending central shared services used by game teams and stakeholders
  • Define SLOs, add metrics/tracing/logging, participate in on-call and incident reviews, and harden reliability and performance in live operations
  • Leverage AI tools to enhance development efficiency, code quality, and problem solving
  • Collaborate closely with game designers, producers and product leads to implement new features
  • Communicate and collaborate within cross-functional teams and influence technical architecture decisions
  • Mentor engineers via design reviews, pairing, and by setting coding standards; contribute to engineering hiring

Requirements

  • 7+ years of proven experience in Node.js/TypeScript development
  • Proficiency in Next.js, Nest.js, Express.js, and Jest
  • Deep experience with distributed systems: queues/pub-sub, idempotency, data modeling across service boundaries, and eventual consistency
  • Experience developing and maintaining multi-server, high-load backend services and APIs
  • Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB or similar)
  • Strong automated quality mindset using unit testing, integration testing, and other test automation frameworks
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively integrate AI tools into development workflows
  • Be familiar with or eager to learn other languages like PHP or Java
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Hands-on experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
  • Enthusiasm for games, ideally strategy games

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work models
  • Career Path Framework and mentorship culture
  • Language courses
  • E-learning platforms
  • Support for conferences and training
  • Social events (game nights, casual drinks, quiz nights, karaoke)
  • Inspiring office locations with harbor/Maltese views and international vibe

Job title

Senior Backend Engineer, Node.js/TypeScript

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

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Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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