Senior Back End Engineer

Kyra

Senior backend engineer at Kyra building and maintaining scalable Node.js and TypeScript services. Collaborating on real-time analytics and AI-driven workflows with a talented team.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDockerJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain domain modules in a DDD-style Node.js/TypeScript monorepo (Express, Prisma, Zod).
Design APIs, write Swagger documentation, manage database schemas and migrations.
Work with BullMQ workers for background job processing.
Manage deployments across AWS ECS.
Maintain and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
Document API contracts, write technical specs, maintain Postman collections.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years backend development with Node.js and TypeScript in production.
Strong PostgreSQL — schema design, query optimisation, migrations (Prisma a plus).
AWS experience — ECS or similar container orchestration, RDS, S3, Lambda.
Docker — writing Dockerfiles, multi-stage builds, container orchestration.
CI/CD — GitHub Actions or equivalent. You've built and maintained pipelines, not just triggered them.
Queue systems — BullMQ, SQS, or similar.
REST API design — Express or similar framework, Swagger/OpenAPI documentation.
Git workflow maturity — branching strategies, code review, migration safety.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

Node.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLPrismaAWSDockerGitHub ActionsBullMQREST API designSwagger