
Backend Engineer – Node.js, NestJS
Outlive
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $100,000 - $175,000 per year
About the role
- Design and implement backend services using NestJS (v11) and TypeScript
- Build secure, well-validated REST APIs using zod, class-validator, and OpenAPI
- Implement role-based access control and JWT validation using Google Identity
- Model and manage relational data using Prisma and Postgres
- Implement background jobs and async workflows using Cloud Tasks
- Integrate with external services (OCR, scheduling APIs, third-party data sources)
- Ensure observability through structured logging, metrics, and Sentry
- Write unit and integration tests using Jest
- Collaborate closely with frontend and infra engineers on system design and deployment
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- Strong experience with Node.js and TypeScript
- Production experience with NestJS or similar structured backend frameworks
- Experience designing APIs and data models for complex domains
- Familiarity with relational databases and ORMs
- Strong security mindset, especially around auth and data access
- Experience optimizing Postgres data interactions
- Strong familiarity with building distributed systems, related practical design considerations, and patterns for scaling such systems in the cloud
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical, vision, and dental insurance (multiple plans available).
- 100% employer-paid life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability insurance.
- Employer-sponsored HSA contributions for HDHP medical plans
- Additional HSA and FSA spending account plans for employees
- 401(k) with a 5% company match.
- Generous PTO and holiday schedule.
- Company-issued technology and work-from-home stipend.
- A chance to shape a product, and a company, from the ground up.
- The opportunity to work at the forefront of health and longevity science with a team of world-class professionals dedicated to precision, mastery, and excellence.
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Hard Skills & Tools
NestJSTypeScriptREST APIszodclass-validatorOpenAPIJWTPrismaPostgresJest
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationsecurity mindsetsystem design