Node.js Backend Developer

Quick Facts

• Role: Backend Engineer / Node.js Backend Developer

Description

Build and scale backend services for a high-traffic gaming companion platform. You will design and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL/MySQL data models, Redis-compatible caching, ClickHouse analytics pipelines, and background processing—while working daily with agentic AI coding tools and applying safety guardrails for code changes.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs in TypeScript (Fastify, Hono) with authentication, rate limits, and typed contracts

• Design schemas and write queries for PostgreSQL and MySQL (Prisma, Drizzle), including versioned game data, player builds, and live migrations

• Run ClickHouse analytics pipelines (request logs, materialized views, and metrics powering dashboards)

• Own caching end to end: Redis-compatible stores, query caching, tag invalidation, HTTP headers, and CDN purges

• Build and run scheduled jobs and queue consumers (NATS) for game data sync, leaderboards, Meilisearch indexing, sitemaps, Stripe webhooks, payouts, and data-deletion requests

• Integrate third-party APIs (Stripe, Discord, Blizzard, IGDB, Steam, YouTube) with retries/backoff and rate limiting

• Process game images into map tiles, sprite sheets, and responsive image sizes

• Keep responses lean for Remix and Next.js pages to improve TTFB, PageSpeed, and SEO

• Work with AI coding agents daily: direct, review output, and maintain guardrails (tests, lint rules, build checks, agent instructions)

• Deploy via Docker, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes; support high-traffic game launches as needed

Requirements

• 3+ years of backend development with TypeScript on Node.js

• Strong TypeScript type system knowledge (generics, inference, discriminated unions, narrowing)

• Schema validation experience with Zod or similar

• Strong SQL skills in PostgreSQL and/or MySQL (schema design, indexing, query plans, live migrations, transactions/locking)

• Experience operating analytical databases at production volume (ClickHouse preferred)

• Experience designing caching (Redis or compatible, invalidation strategies, HTTP cache headers, CDN behavior)

• Experience designing and consuming REST and GraphQL APIs (authentication, rate limiting)

• Experience with background jobs and message queues (duplicate runs, missed runs, and reliability handling)

• Experience with high-volume, user-facing production applications

• Experience taking a product/feature from idea to production

• Daily hands-on proficiency with agentic AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and strong judgment about when to review/check output

• Comfort reading and changing React code when features reach the frontend

• Ability to work well in a startup-style environment with changing priorities

• Flexible working hours for evening/weekend launch coverage

• Upper-intermediate English level

• Passion for gaming

Benefits

• Professional growth: mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps

• Competitive compensation: USD-based compensation with budgets for education, fitness, and team activities

• Flextime with remote and office options for work-life balance

• Exciting projects working with Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands