Backend Developer with Italian - Senior - EY GDS Spain - Hybrid

Join our AI&Data team to design, build, and evolve resilient backend services that power digital products at scale. You will work across complex systems with an end-to-end problem-solving mindset, contributing to design, development, maintenance, and continuous improvement. You will uphold high engineering standards and help ensure code quality, operational excellence, and performance in production.

Your key responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using TypeScript with Node.js, following clean code and architectural best practices

Build synchronous and asynchronous services, exposing REST endpoints documented via OpenAPI, with strong attention to reliability, observability, and security

• Contribute to design and architecture decisions, partnering with product, frontend, and platform teams to evolve services and domain models


• Ensure operational excellence in production: debugging, root-cause analysis, performance optimization, reliability improvements, and clear runbooks


• Apply CI/CD practices (build, test, release automation) and an DevOps/IaC approach to provisioning and managing cloud resources


• Write automated tests (unit and integration) and participate in code reviews to maintain quality and consistency.


• Use Git for version control and manage collaborative workflows on GitHub (pull requests, code reviews, branching strategies)


• Select and integrate the right data stores for the job (relational databases, NoSQL, caching), understanding their trade-offs and performance characteristics


• Run services on Azure, leveraging native cloud capabilities and managed services where appropriate

Skills and attributes for success

You bring strong software engineering fundamentals, a pragmatic approach to solving complex problems  end-to-end, and a commitment to craftsmanship. Collaboration, communication, and ownership are key to succeeding in this role.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

Professional experience in server-side development with TypeScript and Node.js

Knowledge of multiple programming paradigms, including OOP and functional programming

Experience building REST services documented with OpenAPI (Swagger)

Hands-on practice with CI/CD pipelines and release automation

Direct experience on Microsoft Azure for developing and running backend services

DevOps mindset and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience

Proven ability to write automated tests (unit and integration)

Proficiency with Git and collaborative workflows on GitHub (pull requests, code review)

Understanding of different storage types and their specifics (relational DBs, NoSQL, caches) and how to apply them effectively

Knowledge of Italian language

Ideally, You’ll Also Have

Experience with event-driven architectures (queues, pub/sub), messaging patterns, and asynchronous processing

Familiarity with observability stacks (logging, metrics, tracing) and SLO/SLA practices

Knowledge of security best practices (authN/authZ, OWASP, secrets management)

Exposure to containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) on Azure

What we look for

Curious, pragmatic engineers who take ownership, care about code quality and operability, and enjoy collaborating in cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable services in production.

What we offer

In EY GDS Spain, you will collaborate with our teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills, and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.


• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.


• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching, and confidence to be the leader the world needs.


• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

About EY GDS

EY Global Delivery Services (EY GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network of over 75,000 people working across the world, to provide innovative and strategic business solutions to our clients worldwide. We play a vital role in growth strategy, helping our clients become agile and efficient, and helping fulfill our purpose to build a better working world.

From accountants to coders, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. We look for skills that are evergreen and our roles evolve with industry trends. We also work across Finance, Business Development, Technology, Talent, Procurement and Risk Management functions to help our teams operate as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Across our 10 locations and 21 cities, we work with teams from all service lines, geographies, and sectors. We operate in Argentina, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Our EY GDS Spain office is located at Malaga Technology Park and currently employs over 850 people.

If you are interested in being part of our team, we kindly invite you to submit your CV in English to apply for this position.

The exceptional EY GDS experience. It’s yours to build.