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Senior NodeJS Developer (Remote, Full-Time), PK [HR176]

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Posted about 2 months ago

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About Smart Working
At Smart Working, we believe your job should not only look right on paper but also feel right every day. This isn’t just another remote opportunity - it’s about finding where you truly belong, no matter where you are. From day one, you’re welcomed into a genuine community that values your growth and well-being.

Our mission is simple: to break down geographic barriers and connect skilled professionals with outstanding global teams and products for full-time, long-term roles. We help you discover meaningful work with teams that invest in your success, where you’re empowered to grow personally and professionally.

Join one of the highest-rated workplaces on Glassdoor and experience what it means to thrive in a truly remote-first world.

About the Role
We are looking for a Senior NodeJS Developer to join a high-performing Product & Engineering team focused on delivering scalable, real-time, data-driven applications.

In this role, you will play a key part in driving engineering excellence across modern SaaS products, contributing hands-on to the design, development, and delivery of platform enhancements and core system improvements. You will work closely with Developers, Product Managers, Designers, and QA teams to build reliable, scalable, and secure software solutions aligned with business and customer needs.

This is a highly collaborative senior engineering role where you will help shape architectural decisions, champion engineering best practices, mentor peers through knowledge sharing, and contribute to a strong culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate is someone who combines strong backend engineering expertise with architectural thinking, product awareness, and a pragmatic approach to modern software delivery.
### Responsibilities
  • Develop and maintain scalable applications using NodeJS, TypeScript, MongoDB, Docker, and related technologies
  • Contribute hands-on across the full software development lifecycle, from design through deployment and support
  • Collaborate closely with developers, designers, QA, and product stakeholders to deliver high-quality product features and enhancements
  • Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and estimation sessions
  • Review technical designs, requirements, and specifications to provide constructive feedback and ensure engineering quality
  • Identify technical risks, dependencies, and architectural considerations early in the development process
  • Drive engineering best practices across CI/CD, testing, observability, security, and code quality
  • Contribute to architectural strategy and support scalable, maintainable system design decisions
  • Build and support real-time, event-driven, and data-intensive platform capabilities
  • Participate in an on-call support rota and contribute to incident resolution and operational stability
  • Collaborate across business and technical teams to align engineering delivery with commercial and customer objectives
  • Promote knowledge sharing, documentation, and continuous improvement across the engineering organisation
  • Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and delivery efficiency
    • ### Requirements
  • Strong professional experience with NodeJS and TypeScript in production environments
  • Strong experience with MongoDB and NoSQL database design, including:
  • Schema modelling
  • Indexing strategies
  • Aggregation pipelines
  • Performance optimisation
  • Hands-on experience with Docker and containerised application development
  • Experience designing and building scalable backend systems and APIs
  • Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and distributed systems
  • Experience working with real-time, data-driven SaaS platforms
  • Solid understanding of software architecture and ability to contribute to architectural decision-making
  • Strong understanding of engineering best practices, including:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Code reviews
  • Automated testing
  • Observability and monitoring
  • Performance optimisation
  • Security practices
  • Understanding of OWASP Top 10 security vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques
  • Experience working within Agile software development environments
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams
  • Experience working with cloud environments such as AWS or GCP
  • Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
  • Ability to troubleshoot issues through to resolution in production systems
  • Experience integrating AI development tools into engineering workflows with measurable impact
  • Strong ownership mindset with a collaborative and delivery-focused approach
    • ### Nice to Have
  • Experience with NestJS
  • Front-end development experience with React
  • Exposure to iOS or Swift development
  • Experience working with message brokers or event-streaming technologies
  • Experience operating high-scale, real-time distributed systems
  • Familiarity with GCP-native infrastructure and tooling
  • Experience mentoring developers and improving engineering maturity within teams
  • Exposure to observability platforms and advanced monitoring tooling
  • Experience working in fast-paced SaaS or product engineering environments

    • At Smart Working, you’ll never be just another remote hire.

    Be a Smart Worker - valued, empowered, and part of a culture that celebrates integrity, excellence, and ambition.

    If that sounds like your kind of place, we’d love to hear your story. 

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    Smart Working is Tech Talent as a Service - building high-performance global engineering teams without the friction, risk, or overhead of legacy hiring models. A low-churn model that ensures you get exactly the right talent you need - on time, every time... with long-term support. 🌍 We hire exceptional engineers locally and offer stable, remote, and impactful roles helping build meaningful technology. Our fully-embedded teams help 60+ clients in the UK and USA build serious products and solutions. 🔁 Long-term support - we manage talent across the full lifecycle, from vetting to payroll, so you can focus on what matters most: building your business. ✨ What makes Smart Working different: ✅ Top 1% rigorously vetted global talent ✅ Fully embedded, culturally aligned teams working your hours ✅ Full support across performance, payroll, compliance, and HR operations ✅ Continuous AI training - future-proofed, super-efficient teams We don’t just fill seats. We build great tech teams that last - and deliver.

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