Senior Backend Developer – JavaScript

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🕒 August 21

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Brightidea

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1999

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Productivity • Enterprise

Brightidea is a leading software company that specializes in Idea and Innovation management, providing a platform for organizations to capture, share, and evaluate employee ideas. Their software supports activities such as crowdsourcing challenges and hackathons, enabling companies to drive open innovation and manage a portfolio of initiatives effectively. Brightidea's tools help organizations scale their innovation efforts, ultimately generating substantial financial impacts and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.

📋 Description

• Take end-to-end ownership of product and feature development, from design and implementation to production rollout and ongoing improvements • Build and operate backend services focused on scalability, reliability, and performance in a microservices environment • Participate in system design, architecture planning, and technical decisions across the team • Work with asynchronous, message-driven components using Redis Streams, including debugging, tuning, and resilient processing • Write high-quality, maintainable code with appropriate test coverage • Participate actively in code reviews • Collaborate with teammates and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-impact outcomes • Continuously learn, adapt, and stay up-to-date with best practices and evolving technologies

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on backend JavaScript / Node.js development • Proven experience building and maintaining SaaS applications and/or production backend services • Experience working in a microservices architecture (service boundaries, APIs, reliability patterns) • Experience with LangChain and LangGraph, including building and orchestrating LLM-powered workflows • Hands-on experience with MongoDB and Redis, including practical experience with Redis Streams or similar pub/sub/stream processing • Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized deployments • Good understanding of system design fundamentals: APIs, data modeling, performance, scalability, and reliability • Ability to work independently and as a team player • Proficiency in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills • Experience with Snowflake and data pipelines/analytics is nice to have • Experience with AWS and cloud-based production environments is nice to have • Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL/MySQL and additional NoSQL technologies is nice to have • Experience with observability tooling and incident response is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time employment