Essential<\/b>
<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>- 5+ years of professional backend development experience
<\/li> - Strong Node.js + TypeScript skills — this is your primary tool
<\/li> - Solid experience with WebSockets / socket.io
<\/li> - Good grasp of REST API design: auth, error handling, versioning
<\/li> - Comfortable with Redis (pub/sub, caching, queues)
<\/li> - SQL and relational database experience — AWS RDS / MySQL preferred
<\/li> - Experience with message/job queues (Bee Queue, SQS, or similar)
<\/li> - Solid logging and observability practice (structured logs, metrics, alerting)
<\/li> - Proven experience with AWS services and a real understanding of AWS networking
<\/li> - Comfortable working at pace in a small, high -trust team
<\/li><\/ul>Nice to Have<\/b>
<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>- Exposure to IoT systems — firmware interaction, physical device constraints, debugging connectivity
<\/li> - Experience with real -time mobile app communications
<\/li> - API versioning and backward compatibility experience
<\/li> - Monitoring and alerting setup experience
<\/li> - A track record of scaling systems through periods of significant growth
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