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Senior Backend Engineer // Fully Remote // TypeScript Node.JS

Motion Recruitment · Washington, DC · 1 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineeringFull-time

We’re a fast-growing B2B infrastructure platform expanding our engineering team. Join one of our most critical and high-velocity teams as a Senior Backend Engineer, working 100% remotely with a TypeScript, Node.js, and Nest.js stack and microservice architecture. The platform powers real-time services for a rapidly growing merchant base and operates at meaningful scale. EST hours are required.

This team owns more services than any other in the company, and every major initiative flows through it. With 15 to 18 services under its umbrella and a rapidly expanding customer base, you’ll have real opportunities to shape architecture, mentor engineers, and ship work that matters in production. This role is built for an engineer who wants full ownership, thrives without bureaucracy, and wants to see their fingerprints on something that is actually growing.

Responsibilities

  • 60% Hands-on engineering: building, maintaining, and scaling backend services (TypeScript / Node.js / Nest.js)
  • 20% System design and architecture
  • 20% API integrations (Shopify, Magento, headless eCommerce)
  • Collaborate with the team and mentor engineers
  • Make and defend architecture and design decisions

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience with TypeScript and Node.js
  • Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining APIs at scale in production environments
  • Track record of building and shipping services end-to-end with full ownership
  • Strong foundation in system design and microservice architecture
  • Startup mentality: comfortable with ownership, ambiguity, and moving fast
  • Clear communicator who can make and defend technical decisions
  • Experience mentoring engineers and raising the bar on a team
  • Currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future

Nice-to-have

  • Nest.js experience
  • Background in ecommerce or experience integrating with logistics and shipping APIs
  • Familiarity with Shopify, Magento, or WooCommerce
  • Java experience with Quarkus
  • Experience with MongoDB or Infrastructure as Code

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible PTO
  • Performance-based equity

Pay

Competitive base salary, bonus eligible

Schedule

Fully remote, EST hours required

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