Senior Backend Engineer Node.js + AWS
Summary
Senior backend engineer building scalable services and APIs for Deel's global payroll and HR platform, working in a cross-functional, remote-first team. Core stack is Node.js with TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS, with a focus on performance and reliability at high transaction volumes.
In this role you will contribute to building scalable backend services for Deel’s global payroll and HR platform. You will work within a cross-functional Engineering team to plan, design, and deliver robust features and APIs that serve customers worldwide. You will tackle performance and reliability challenges at scale, while maintaining a customer-centric engineering mindset. This is an opportunity to impact how global teams are paid and governed, in a remote-first, high-growth SaaS environment.
Pay / Benefits- Stock grant opportunities
- Flexible office membership (IWG)
- Total rewards program
- Healthcare and benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Remote-friendly with inclusive policies
- Collaborate in a cross-functional team with frontend, product, design, and QA to deliver seamless experiences
- Participate in product planning from discovery to deployment
- Develop and enhance features, including APIs, with a focus on quality and scalability
- Identify and fix bugs quickly to maintain Deel Speed
- Deliver a customer-centric engineering approach to product quality and reliability
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Backend development with Node.js and TypeScript/JavaScript
- Proficiency in PostgreSQL and SQL query optimization
- Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and design patterns
- Experience designing scalable systems and handling high transaction volumes
- API development experience with input validation, JWT, and queue-based architectures
- Remote collaboration and proactive communication
- Ownership and autonomy balanced with teamwork
- Clear communication of complex ideas to diverse stakeholders
- Node.js
- TypeScript/JavaScript
- PostgreSQL