Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pragmatike is recruiting for a fast-growing technology company that builds critical infrastructure for high-volume, real-time business operations. They are seeking a Backend Software Engineer with strong TypeScript and NestJS expertise to design, build, and scale backend services that process large volumes of transactions and data.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using TypeScript and NestJS
• Architect and implement scalable APIs, integrations, and event-driven systems
• Build and optimize high-throughput workflows that process large volumes of transactions and data
• Design data models, service architectures, and integration patterns for complex distributed systems
• Develop reliable asynchronous processing systems using queues, workers, and background jobs
• Collaborate with Product and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Improve platform reliability, performance, and operational efficiency
• Implement observability best practices, including logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and alerting
• Contribute to API design, developer experience, documentation, and internal tooling
• Participate in architectural discussions and influence long-term platform strategy
• Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and code quality
• Take ownership of projects from design through deployment and ongoing optimization

Skills

• 4+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and experience building production systems with NestJS or similar Node.js frameworks
• Proven experience designing and building scalable APIs and backend services
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs, webhooks, and external platforms
• Solid system design skills and the ability to architect solutions that handle significant scale and complexity
• Experience working with observability tools, monitoring systems, and production troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, testing, and maintainability
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams
• A proactive, ownership-driven mindset with the ability to work independently in a remote environment
• Experience with queue management and background job processing tools such as BullMQ or similar technologies
• Familiarity with Next.js or modern frontend frameworks
• Experience building high-volume transactional or integration-heavy systems
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure and DevOps best practices
• Experience working in startup or high-growth environments
• Knowledge of distributed architectures, microservices, and platform engineering concepts
• Experience using AI-powered development tools as part of your engineering workflow

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