Node JS / Typescript Backend Developer

Essential 5+ years of professional backend development experience Strong Node.js + TypeScript skills — this is your primary tool Solid experience with WebSockets / socket.io Good grasp of REST API design: auth, error handling, versioning Comfortable with Redis (pub/sub, caching, queues) SQL and relational database experience — AWS RDS / MySQL preferred Experience with message/job queues (Bee Queue, SQS, or similar) Solid logging and observability practice (structured logs, metrics, alerting) Proven experience with AWS services and a real understanding of AWS networking Comfortable working at pace in a small, high-trust team Nice to Have Exposure to IoT systems — firmware interaction, physical device constraints, debugging connectivity Experience with real-time mobile app communications API versioning and backward compatibility experience Monitoring and alerting setup experience A track record of scaling systems through periods of significant growth