Senior Backend Developer
Derry / Hybrid
The Opportunity
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.
