# Principal Backend / Infrastructure Engineer – TypeScript

**Company:** [Titan](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/titan)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, APIs, Microservices, Distributed Systems, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, Infrastructure As Code, CI/CD, Observability, Messaging Systems, Caching
**Posted:** 2026-02-06

> Principal Backend/Infrastructure Engineer architects and scales backend services, trading systems, real-time APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure using TypeScript/Node.js. Requires 6+ years experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, security, and DevOps practices.

## Job Description

## Core Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript.
- Improve and extend the infrastructure that enables trading, account management, transaction processing, and portfolio automation.
- Ensure high availability, performance, and security across backend systems powering millions of daily operations.
- Build and enhance internal tools, data pipelines, and system integrations.
- Extend our DevOps/infrastructure to shape CI/CD, deployment automation, observability, monitoring, and incident response.
- Champion best practices for code quality, system design, testing, and documentation.
- Mentor junior engineers and drive architectural initiatives across the backend domain.

## Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional experience building backend systems in TypeScript or comparable languages (Node.js preferred).
- Strong backend fundamentals: APIs, microservices, distributed systems, data stores, caching, messaging systems.
- Experience with database design (SQL & NoSQL), scaling patterns, performance optimization, and observability.
- Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure as code.
- Solid understanding of security practices for backend systems (authentication, authorization, data protection).
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

## What Makes You Stand Out
- Experience building financial or real-time services.
- Familiarity with automated portfolio, trading, or financial data systems.
- Previous ownership of backend infrastructure or mission-critical systems.
- Experience scaling apps used by tens of thousands of users with high throughput.

## Compensation
Competitive cash compensation and well-above-market equity packages.

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