Senior Node.js Backend Engineer

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🔥 42 minutes ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Vista Global

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2018

💸 Finance

💼 Consulting

🤝 B2B

Finance • Consulting • B2B

Vista Global is an investments and consulting firm that offers end-to-end portfolio management and trading services across multiple asset classes. The company describes proprietary strategies and portfolio management services tailored to client risk profiles, covering traditional markets (equities, commodities, fixed income) and fast-paced digital markets. The website emphasizes customized returns, client contact options (including WhatsApp), and promotional language about outperforming benchmarks; a copyright notice lists 2016.

📋 Description

• Drive loosely defined designs and problems through scope definition and shipped features • Lead technical and architectural decisions and build team alignment • Build and maintain customer-facing features across APIs, backend services, and data models • Design and evolve database schemas and data models for the client-side application • Develop scalable and secure APIs • Partner with Product, UX, and Data to translate user needs into technical solutions • Contribute to planning, design, and code reviews • Debug production issues and perform root-cause analysis • Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability for backend services • Mentor teammates and improve engineering effectiveness • Use AI-assisted tools to support development workflows

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development experience • BS in Computer Science or Software Engineering • Experience independently defining solutions for ambiguous problems • Strong backend experience with Node.js • Strong API design experience, including API security • Experience with relational databases and schema design, ideally PostgreSQL and SQL • Ability to work across API and data layers • Strong product mindset • Experience with CI/CD pipelines • Experience with metrics, monitoring, and alerting tools such as Grafana, Kibana, and ElastAlert • Clear communication and ability to articulate technical positions, build consensus, and lead technical decisions • Additional backend experience in Python or Java is a plus • Familiarity with modern AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work base • Permanent full-time employment • Autonomy and responsibility from day one • Hands-on learning and close collaboration • Supportive global community • Opportunity to improve processes, challenge norms, and drive meaningful change