Backend Engineer - TypeScript and Node.js

Stott And May โ€” United Kingdom ยท Posted ~1 day ago

Mid Full-time Remote Visa History โœ“

Skills

TypeScript Node.js Backend development APIs Distributed systems Microservices Event-driven architecture Kafka RabbitMQ SQS

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Summary

A backend engineering role focused on developing secure, scalable services and APIs using modern JavaScript technologies. The position involves distributed systems, messaging platforms, architecture decisions, and continuous improvement.

Highlights

Remote backend engineering role with opportunities to influence architecture, build resilient systems, and use modern AI-assisted development practices.

Description

Job Description Backend Engineer (TypeScript, Node.js & AI) โ€“ Remote (UK or EU) We're hiring a Backend Engineer to join a growing FinTech business that is using technology to modernise and simplify complex financial processes for institutional and corporate clients. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative engineering team working on scalable, high-availability systems that process significant volumes of business-critical data and transactions. You'll contribute to the design, development and evolution of a modern platform, helping to deliver reliable products while influencing technical decisions and engineering standards. The team embraces AI-assisted software development across the engineering lifecycle and is looking for someone who is comfortable working with modern AI tools and interested in exploring how they can improve productivity, quality and delivery. The role Working within a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, designers and subject matter experts, you will: Design, build and maintain backend services using TypeScript and Node.js Develop APIs and integrations that support customer-facing and internal products Contribute to architecture discussions and technical decision-making Build scalable, secure and resilient distributed systems Support, improve and extend existing applications and services Work with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies Use AI tools as part of your day-to-day development workflow Contribute to engineering best practices, code quality and continuous improvement initiatives Experience And Skills Around 3โ€“7 years of commercial software engineering experience Strong experience with Node.js, TypeScript and recent AI & coding agents Experience working with distributed messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS or similar Experience within event-driven and microservices architecture environments Ability to work within a cross-functional, start-up environment For further details and immediate consideration, please get in touch.