Backend Software Engineer

🔥 13 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Pragmatike

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

Pragmatike is a remote IT recruitment and staffing company that sources, vets, and places international tech talent for businesses. They provide human-curated matching (not solely AI), technical assessments, and fast placements—claiming qualified specialists can be introduced within 48 hours—while handling onboarding, invoicing and international payroll. Pragmatike serves startups and enterprises with roles like developers, data engineers, mobile and game developers, product managers and specialists, operating across 60+ countries with a large vetted talent pool.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using TypeScript and NestJS. • Architect and implement scalable APIs, integrations, and event-driven systems. • Build and optimize high-throughput workflows that process large volumes of transactions and data. • Design data models, service architectures, and integration patterns for complex distributed systems. • Develop reliable asynchronous processing systems using queues, workers, and background jobs. • Collaborate with Product and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. • Improve platform reliability, performance, and operational efficiency. • Implement observability best practices, including logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and alerting. • Contribute to API design, developer experience, documentation, and internal tooling. • Participate in architectural discussions and influence long-term platform strategy. • Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and code quality. • Take ownership of projects from design through deployment and ongoing optimization.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of professional backend software engineering experience. • Strong proficiency in TypeScript and experience building production systems with NestJS or similar Node.js frameworks. • Proven experience designing and building scalable APIs and backend services. • Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing. • Experience integrating with third-party APIs, webhooks, and external platforms. • Solid system design skills and the ability to architect solutions that handle significant scale and complexity. • Experience working with observability tools, monitoring systems, and production troubleshooting. • Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, testing, and maintainability. • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams. • A proactive, ownership-driven mindset with the ability to work independently in a remote environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Pragmatike is committed to a fair, transparent, and inclusive recruitment process. • In accordance with GDPR, your personal data will be processed lawfully, fairly, and securely, and used solely for recruitment purposes, including sharing it with our client(s) for employment consideration. • You may request access, correction, or deletion of your data at any time. • We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality and security of your information throughout the recruitment process.