At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
- Company: Fast-growing tech company focused on real-time, connected technology.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity options, hybrid work, and a supportive team culture.
- Other info: Opportunity for mentorship and genuine ownership in a dynamic environment.
- Why this job: Join at a pivotal moment and shape the future of a global product.
- Qualifications: 5 years backend development experience with strong Node.js and TypeScript skills.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 60000 £ per year.
Seasoned Backend Developer with strong Node.js and TypeScript skills.
Real-time systems experience: WebSockets, pub/sub, Redis.
Comfortable with AWS infrastructure and networking fundamentals.
Joining a fast-scaling product company with a global ambition and genuine ownership culture. Hybrid working from Derry, with flexibility for the right candidate.
Who Youll Work For
Our client is a fast-moving product company building real-time, connected technology at the intersection of IoT, mobile, and cloud. They are entering a significant growth phase, expanding from a UK and Ireland focus into a truly global business. With an established product already in market, this is a rare opportunity to join at exactly the right moment and shape the engineering culture as the company scales.
What Youll Be Doing
- Designing, building, enhancing, and maintaining scalable backend services and APIs.
- Leading architectural decisions that support rapid growth and increased user demand.
- Working with real-time communication systems, including WebSockets and managing Redis for pub/sub messaging, caching, and job queuing.
- Building and maintaining robust integrations with third-party APIs, including error handling, rate limit management, retries, and monitoring.
- Owning observability across the stack: structured logging, metrics, and alerting.
- Collaborating on AWS infrastructure (RDS, Lambda, IoT Core) and applying a solid understanding of networking concepts such as VPCs, subnets, NAT gateways, and VPNs.
- Mentoring junior developers and contributing to a strong, high-trust engineering culture.
- Integrating with third-party software to extend and enhance the product offering.
Your Impact
In this role, you will be one of the key technical voices shaping how the platform scales from a UK and Ireland solution into a globally capable product. Your architectural decisions will directly influence the reliability, performance, and extensibility of systems that sit at the heart of the business. You will help raise the engineering bar, mentor the next generation of developers on the team, and ensure the backend is built to last as the company enters its most ambitious growth phase yet.
What Were Looking For
Essential
- 5 years of professional backend development experience.
- Strong Node.js and TypeScript skills as your primary development tools.
- Solid experience with WebSockets and for real-time communication.
- Good grasp of REST API design: authentication, error handling, and versioning.
- Comfortable with Redis for pub/sub, caching, and queuing.
- SQL and relational database experience, with AWS RDS or MySQL preferred.
- Experience with message and job queues such as Bee Queue, SQS, or similar.
- Strong logging and observability practice: structured logs, metrics, and alerting.
- Proven experience with AWS services and a solid understanding of AWS networking.
- Comfortable working at pace in a small, high-trust team environment.
Desirable
- Exposure to IoT systems, including firmware interaction, physical device constraints, and debugging connectivity issues.
- Experience with real-time mobile app communications.
- A track record of scaling systems through periods of significant growth.
- Background in building or maintaining monitoring and alerting infrastructure.
Whats In It For You
- Genuine ownership of architectural decisions that matter, made in collaboration with the wider team.
- A product company environment, not an agency: you will build things that last.
- A small, highly capable team with no bureaucracy and no hand-holding.
- Hybrid working from Derry, with flexibility for the right person.
- The chance to join at a pivotal moment as the business targets global growth.
- Equity on offer for successful candidates.
If youre interested or have any further questions on the role, please feel free to reach out to Eve Geddis directly on LinkedIn.
Backend Developer - Node.js employer: Ocho
Join a dynamic and innovative product company based in Derry, where you will have the opportunity to shape the engineering culture during a pivotal growth phase. With a strong emphasis on genuine ownership, a collaborative work environment, and hybrid working flexibility, this role offers not only competitive benefits but also the chance to make a significant impact on a globally ambitious project. As part of a small, high-trust team, you'll enjoy mentoring opportunities and the satisfaction of building lasting solutions in real-time technology.
