At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build scalable backend services while leading architectural decisions.
- Company: Ambitious tech company with a collaborative and innovative culture.
- Benefits: Flexible working, equity opportunities, and a chance to work from home.
- Other info: Join a small team with excellent growth potential and minimal bureaucracy.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a high-growth environment with significant technical ownership.
- Qualifications: 5 years of backend development experience, strong Node.js and TypeScript skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
We're partnering with an ambitious product technology company entering a significant growth phase. With plans to scale internationally, they're looking for a Senior Backend Developer to help build and evolve the core platform that underpins their products and services. This is an opportunity to join a small, highly capable engineering team where you'll have genuine influence over architecture, technology decisions and engineering standards. If you enjoy solving complex technical problems, building scalable systems and working in a fast-paced product environment, this role offers the chance to make a real impact.
The Role
You'll take ownership of backend services and platform architecture, helping to design and deliver highly scalable systems that support real-time data processing, integrations and cloud-native applications. Working closely with product and engineering teams, you'll help drive technical excellence while contributing to the long-term scalability and reliability of the platform.
What You'll Do
- Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs
- Develop real-time and event-driven applications
- Lead architectural decisions that support business growth
- Build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms
- Improve platform reliability, performance and observability
- Work closely with AWS cloud infrastructure
- Contribute to engineering best practices and technical standards
- Mentor developers and support knowledge sharing across the team
- Collaborate on product innovation and future platform development
What You'll Bring
Essential
- 5 years of commercial backend development experience
- Strong Node.js and TypeScript expertise
- Experience building and scaling RESTful APIs
- Knowledge of WebSockets or real-time communication systems
- Experience with Redis, caching and messaging patterns
- Strong SQL and relational database experience
- Exposure to queue-based or event-driven architectures
- Experience working with AWS cloud services
- Strong understanding of system reliability, monitoring and observability
- Comfortable working in a collaborative, fast-moving environment
Nice to Have
- Experience with real-time platforms or data-intensive applications
- Exposure to cloud-native distributed systems
- Experience scaling products during periods of rapid growth
- Knowledge of monitoring and alerting best practices
- Experience working on customer-facing SaaS products
Why Join?
- High-impact role with significant technical ownership
- Opportunity to influence architecture and engineering direction
- Small, collaborative team with minimal bureaucracy
- Flexible working environment
- Strong growth trajectory and ambitious expansion plans
- Equity opportunity available
- Chance to work on a product used by customers across multiple markets
Feel free to reach out to Chanel Gillen for more information and a confidential chat about your next career move.
Senior Backend Developer (Node.js) in Londonderry employer: Ocho
Join a dynamic and ambitious product technology company in Derry, where as a Senior Backend Developer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of their core platform. With a strong focus on collaboration, minimal bureaucracy, and a flexible working environment, this is an excellent opportunity for personal and professional growth, especially as the company embarks on an exciting international expansion. Enjoy significant technical ownership, the chance to influence architectural decisions, and the potential for equity in a high-impact role that directly contributes to innovative products used by customers worldwide.
