Senior Backend Engineer

🚀 Node.js / TypeScript Contractor | 8 Months | Fully Remote | Across Europe

We are hiring for a Senior Node.js / TypeScript Engineer to join a fast-growing tech company on an 8-month project.

The details:

💼 B2B contract, 8 months

⚡ Energy

🌍 Fully remote, open to contractors anywhere in Europe

💶 €450 to €500 per day

⏱️ Start: ASAP

The project:

This is a delivery-focused engagement, not maintenance work. You’ll join an established engineering team building out a high-volume, customer-facing platform, with real users and real scale behind every release.

🔹 Building new backend services and extending existing ones in a TypeScript-first microservices architecture

🔹 Designing event-driven workflows that process large volumes of data reliably and in near real time

🔹 Owning APIs (REST and GraphQL) consumed by web, mobile and internal teams

🔹 Breaking down legacy components and improving performance, resilience and observability

🔹 Shaping technical decisions in design reviews, with plenty of room to influence architecture

🔹 Working in a mature engineering culture with CI/CD, automated testing and strong code review practices

What you’ll bring:

✅ Strong commercial Node.js and TypeScript experience

✅ Proven experience building and scaling distributed systems or microservices

✅ Solid testing practices (unit, integration) and CI/CD knowledge

✅ Cloud experience (AWS preferred)

✅ Comfortable working autonomously in a remote, async-friendly team

✅ Excellent English

Nice to have:

➕ Event-driven architecture, queues or streaming (Kafka, SQS, etc.)

➕ GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code

➕ Experience with high-volume or data-heavy platforms