We are looking for a Backend Engineer with strong experience in NestJS TypeScript and PostgreSQL to build scalable secure and high-performance backend systems. The ideal candidate should have a solid understanding of backend architecture API design database optimization caching asynchronous processing cloud services and production reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Design develop and maintain scalable backend services and REST APIs using NestJS and TypeScript.
- Build modular backend architectures using NestJS modules controllers services dependency injection guards interceptors and middleware.
- Design and optimize database schemas queries relationships indexes and transactions using PostgreSQL and Prisma ORM.
- Implement request validation centralized error handling consistent API responses and API documentation using Swagger/OpenAPI.
- Develop secure authentication and authorization mechanisms including JWT RBAC and permission-based access control.
- Implement caching strategies using Redis and asynchronous processing using messaging queues and background jobs.
- Integrate third-party APIs and external systems handling authentication rate limits retries timeouts and failures.
- Optimize API performance database access resource utilization and application scalability.
- Containerize applications using Docker and deploy backend services using Microsoft Azure.
- Implement structured logging monitoring distributed tracing health checks and other observability practices.
- Write automated tests participate in code reviews troubleshoot production issues and maintain technical documentation.
- Collaborate with frontend engineers and other stakeholders to define API contracts and deliver end-to-end features.
Required Skills
Core Technologies and Architecture
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern JavaScript.
- Hands-on experience with NestJS is mandatory including modules dependency injection guards interceptors pipes and exception filters.
- Strong understanding of REST API design asynchronous programming modular architecture SOLID principles and clean code practices.
Database and Caching
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL Prisma ORM schema design migrations transactions indexing and query optimization.
- Experience with Redis for caching TTL management cache invalidation and performance optimization.
- Understanding of database consistency connection pooling and effective data-access patterns.
API Development and Security
- Experience implementing DTOs request validation centralized error handling and consistent API contracts.
- Familiarity with class-validator class-transformer and Swagger/OpenAPI.
- Understanding of authentication authorization JWT OAuth 2.0 RBAC API security rate limiting and secure secrets management.
- Experience handling pagination filtering API versioning retries and backward compatibility.
Cloud Messaging and Integrations
- Experience with Microsoft Azure or equivalent cloud platforms with the ability to work with Azure services in production.
- Familiarity with Azure App Service Azure Container Apps Azure Database for PostgreSQL Azure Service Bus Azure Key Vault and Azure Cache for Redis.
- Understanding of messaging queues background jobs event-driven architecture retries and failure recovery.
- Experience integrating third-party APIs and handling asynchronous workflows.
Performance and Engineering Practices
- Understanding of performance concurrency caching database optimization and scalability.
- Familiarity with structured logging metrics distributed tracing health checks and monitoring tools such as Application Insights or OpenTelemetry.
- Hands-on experience with Docker Git CI/CD and automated testing using Jest or equivalent tools.
- Experience writing unit and integration tests and debugging application issues across development and production environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with microservices event-driven architecture domain-driven design and clean architecture.
- Familiarity with advanced messaging patterns idempotency dead-letter queues and distributed system reliability.
- Experience with GraphQL webhooks WebSockets API gateways or enterprise system integrations.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes infrastructure as code and Azure Functions.
- Experience building enterprise applications SaaS platforms multi-tenant systems and role-based access control.
- Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code for implementation debugging refactoring and testing with the ability to review and validate generated code.
- Familiarity with monorepos shared libraries and CI/CD workflows.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong problem-solving analytical and debugging skills.
- Writes clean modular secure maintainable and strongly typed code.
- Understands the reasoning behind architectural database and performance decisions.
- Takes ownership of features from design and development through testing and deployment.
- Communicates effectively and collaborates with frontend engineers architects and cross-functional teams.
Experience: Mid-level to Senior depending on technical depth and demonstrated ownership.