Senior Backend Software Engineer, Fictiv

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience
• Strong skills in Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience building systems on AWS (SQS, Lambda, EC2, RDS, etc.)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Experience designing and maintaining REST or GraphQL APIs
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Commitment to writing unit and integration tests
• Knowledge of system design, caching, and security best practices (OWASP Top 10)
• Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder)

Desirable

• As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll help build and scale the systems that power our global manufacturing ecosystem
• Design and develop highly available, scalable backend services in AWS
• Build and maintain event-driven, asynchronous systems using Node.js
• Create robust APIs (REST / GraphQL) powering customer-facing and internal tools
• Partner closely with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to ship impactful features
• Contribute to technical design discussions and drive best practices across the team
• Debug production issues and improve system reliability
• Continuously improve code quality through testing, observability, and documentation
• You take ownership and deliver clean, maintainable, production-ready code
• You communicate clearly and collaborate across teams
• You’re proactive in solving problems—even outside your immediate scope
• You enjoy mentoring others and raising the bar for engineering excellence
• You stay curious and continuously learn new technologies and patterns