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Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer – TypeScript

Builds and scales backend services, APIs, trading systems, data pipelines, and infrastructure using TypeScript/Node.js. Requires 3+ years experience in backend systems, cloud platforms, and security practices for high-availability financial platforms.

150k – 300kNew York, NYBackend EngineeringOnsite3+ YOE

About the role

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

  • 3+ 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.

Skills

TypeScriptNode.jsAPIsMicroservicesDistributed SystemsSQLNoSQLAWSGCPAzureInfrastructure As CodeCI/CDObservabilityMessaging SystemsCaching

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