Lead Backend Developer

Serverless Guru

Backend Lead Developer for a personalization engineering team at Serverless Guru. Designing backend architecture and building cloud-native APIs for large enterprise hospitality platform.

Posted 6/18/2026contractRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDynamoDBElasticSearchJavaScriptMongoDBNode.jsNoSQLTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead backend architecture and technical design for personalization platform services.
Design and build cloud-native backend APIs using TypeScript, Node.js, AWS Lambda, and API Gateway.
Work on complex serverless workflows using AWS Step Functions and related AWS services.
Build and maintain services that support personalized experiences, eligibility rules, recommendations, and workflow-driven platform capabilities.
Help migrate, modernize, and improve backend services in the cloud.
Work with databases and search systems such as DynamoDB, DocumentDB/MongoDB-style databases, OpenSearch, or Elasticsearch.
Define backend patterns, engineering standards, and reusable approaches for the team.
Review designs and code with a focus on reliability, scalability, maintainability, and production readiness.
Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, QA, and other engineering teams.
Improve observability, debugging, reliability, and operational quality of backend services.
Mentor engineers technically and help the team make better architectural decisions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of backend engineering experience.
Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
Deep understanding of Node.js backend development, including async execution, event loop behavior, API performance, error handling, and production debugging.
Strong experience building APIs using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
Strong experience with AWS serverless architecture.
Experience with AWS Step Functions or similar workflow orchestration systems.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
Experience with Serverless Framework or similar deployment frameworks.
Strong understanding of NoSQL databases, especially DynamoDB or similar systems.
Good understanding of database design, indexing, query patterns, and performance tradeoffs.
Experience with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, DocumentDB, or MongoDB-style systems is a strong plus.
Strong distributed systems fundamentals: retries, idempotency, partial failure, timeouts, consistency, scaling, and observability.
Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong ownership mindset with the ability to work independently and drive initiatives from concept through delivery.

Benefits

Comp & perks

No specified benefits mentioned.

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Hard Skills & Tools

TypeScriptNode.jsAWS LambdaAPI GatewayAWS Step FunctionsDynamoDBDocumentDBOpenSearchElasticsearchTerraform

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationcommunicationownership mindsetindependencetechnical explanationarchitectural decision-makingreliability focusscalability focusmaintainability focus