Hiring: Node JS / Typescript Backend Developer
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Summary
Backend developer building services and real-time APIs in Node.js and TypeScript for a small, fast-moving UK team. Day to day involves WebSockets/socket.io, REST API design, Redis pub/sub and caching, MySQL on AWS RDS, job queues (SQS/Bee Queue), and AWS networking with solid logging and observability.
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- 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
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<\/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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- Exposure to IoT systems — firmware interaction, physical device constraints, debugging connectivity
