At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build scalable backend services while leading architectural decisions.
- Company: Ambitious tech company with a collaborative culture and growth plans.
- Benefits: Flexible working, equity opportunities, and a chance to work from home.
- Other info: Join a small team with excellent career growth and minimal bureaucracy.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a high-stakes role with significant technical ownership.
- Qualifications: 5 years of backend development experience, strong Node.js and TypeScript skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ 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) employer: Ocho
Join a dynamic and ambitious product technology company in Derry, where you'll play a pivotal role as a Senior Backend Developer. With a strong focus on employee growth and a collaborative work culture, this position offers the chance to influence key architectural decisions while working in a flexible environment that supports innovation and scalability. Enjoy the benefits of a high-impact role with equity opportunities and the excitement of contributing to a platform that serves customers across multiple markets.
