Node JS / Typescript Backend Developer - IOT Systems

Essential

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience
  
• Strong Node.js + TypeScript skills — this is your primary tool
  
• Solid experience with WebSockets / socket.io
  
• Good grasp of REST API design: auth, error handling, versioning
  
• Comfortable with Redis (pub/sub, caching, queues)
  
• SQL and relational database experience — AWS RDS / MySQL preferred
  
• Experience with message/job queues (Bee Queue, SQS, or similar)
  
• Solid logging and observability practice (structured logs, metrics, alerting)
  
• Proven experience with AWS services and a real understanding of AWS networking
  
• Comfortable working at pace in a small, high -trust team
  

Nice to Have

• Exposure to IoT systems — firmware interaction, physical device constraints, debugging connectivity
  
• Experience with real -time mobile app communications
  
• API versioning and backward compatibility experience
  
• Monitoring and alerting setup experience
  
• A track record of scaling systems through periods of significant growth