Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX (Remote)

Experience: 9+ years

Client: Vacation Renter

Duties/Day to Day Overview:

• Design, architect, and implement robust APIs and services using Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Redis
• Optimize complex SQL queries and schemas to ensure lightning-fast performance across large datasets
• Tackle high-scale engineering challenges to ensure reliability and efficiency under heavy traffic
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and leadership teams on backend features
• Proactively identify and resolve technical debt; lead refactoring projects to future-proof our stack
• Participate in team standups, code reviews, and deployment processes
• Mentor and support other engineers, helping to elevate team-wide technical excellence
• Take ownership of projects and drive initiatives from concept to production

Technical Requirements:

• 5-7+ years of backend software engineering experience
• Strong experience with Node.js
• Strong experience using JavaScript on the backend (in conjunction with Node.js)
• Experience with PostgreSQL (or equivalent relational databases)
• Strong SQL skills — able to write, debug, and optimize complex queries on large datasets
• Experience working on high-volume, high-traffic, consumer-facing platforms
• Experience scaling systems to millions of daily users
• Experience with DevOps practices and cloud infrastructure (preferably Google Cloud or AWS), including CI/CD, monitoring, and infrastructure as code
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Experience working within a startup environment and having an entrepreneurial mindset
• Experience working in an Agile environment – daily standups and 2 week sprints