Senior Backend Engineer

👥 Platform 📍 Remote (Worldwide) 💼 Full-time 🏆 Senior (5+ years) 💰 $140,000 – $180,000 USD
TypeScript Node.js PostgreSQL API Design Distributed Systems

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Platform team and help build the core services that power Lit8's product suite. You'll own the design and delivery of APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure that our product teams depend on daily.

This is a high-impact role where you'll make architectural decisions, mentor other engineers, and shape our technical direction.

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services and REST/GraphQL APIs
  • Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of core platform systems
  • Collaborate with product engineers to define clean service boundaries and data contracts
  • Improve our development tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack
  • Participate in architecture reviews and help set engineering standards
  • Mentor mid-level engineers through code reviews and pairing

What We're Looking For

  • 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript or a similar typed language
  • Deep experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
  • Familiarity with message queues, event-driven architectures, and async processing
  • Track record of designing APIs that are easy to use and maintain
  • Comfort working in a remote, async-first environment

Nice to Have

  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
  • Background in building multi-tenant SaaS platforms
  • Contributions to open-source projects
  • Experience with GraphQL federation or API gateway patterns

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