Overview

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer, Infra Engineering, Node.js/AWS/K8s in EMEA. This is a remote position across EMEA, offering both freedom and responsibility in a fast-paced, innovative environment where your work directly impacts the platform's scalability, reliability, and performance.

Accountabilities

As a Senior Backend Engineer in Infra Engineering, you will drive architectural excellence and operational efficiency across the platform. Key responsibilities include:

• Build and maintain high-load backend services with Node.js, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with DevOps and product teams to enforce standards, best practices, and architectural guidance.
• Develop internal tooling, libraries, and frameworks to streamline engineering workflows.
• Respond to production incidents and troubleshoot complex system issues across distributed environments.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from discovery to deployment, contributing to system design and implementation.
• Coordinate projects and initiatives across multiple engineering teams to achieve business and technical goals.

Requirements

The ideal candidate combines technical mastery with problem-solving skills and cross-team collaboration experience. Required qualifications include:

• 7+ years of experience in backend engineering.
• Strong expertise in Node.js and experience building scalable backend services.
• Proficiency with AWS or similar cloud environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker.
• Familiarity with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL) and messaging systems (RabbitMQ/NATS/Kafka).
• Strong system design, problem-solving skills, and the ability to tackle complex, "unknown" challenges.
• Excellent communication skills to orchestrate initiatives across 20+ teams.
• Hands-on troubleshooting ability and readiness to handle production incidents.

Nice to Have

• Experience building internal tooling such as npm packages or frameworks.
• Previous work on developer platforms or infrastructure libraries.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and stock grant opportunities based on role, employment status, and location.
• Flexible remote work with optional co-working space access (e.g., WeWork).
• Scalable benefits and perks based on employment status and country, supporting work-life balance and well-being.
• Opportunity to work in a high-growth, globally distributed team across multiple countries.
• Professional growth in a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment.