Senior Backend Engineer – Node.js

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🌐 United States, Argentina, +2 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Wordly

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Wordly is a leading provider of live translation and captioning solutions, dedicated to making meetings and events more inclusive and accessible. With over 4 million users worldwide, Wordly offers real-time translation for over 60 languages, integrating seamlessly with platforms like Zoom and Teams. Its AI-driven technology ensures high-quality translation and transcription, catering to the needs of various industries including education, corporate training, and events.

📋 Description

• Design, extend, and maintain Node.js backend services, modules, and APIs • Add new capabilities to existing Node.js modules while maintaining compatibility, reliability, and maintainability • Integrate Node.js services and modules with backend services, APIs, and platform components • Own complex backend features from technical design through implementation and delivery • Improve and support existing backend services, including debugging and resolving complex production issues • Implement solutions involving distributed systems, messaging and event streaming systems, caches, and NoSQL data stores • Write and maintain comprehensive unit and integration tests and improve test coverage and code quality • Participate in technical design and code reviews • Identify opportunities to improve maintainability, reliability, and engineering practices • Work cross-functionally with Product, engineers, and technical leads • Use AI-assisted development tools effectively and responsibly • Support Wordly’s real-time translation services delivered in 50+ languages

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience, including significant professional experience building and maintaining Node.js services and APIs • Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and JavaScript in backend production environments • Experience extending and maintaining existing Node.js modules, services, and integrations • Experience with Node.js backend frameworks • Strong understanding of asynchronous programming and event-driven backend patterns • Strong experience working in distributed systems and microservice environments • Experience with messaging and event streaming systems, NoSQL databases, distributed caches, and CI/CD pipelines • Strong experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests • Experience debugging and resolving complex issues in backend services • Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, or similar • Experience with modern software development workflows, including version control and code review practices • Comfortable working with a fully remote team • Self-motivated and able to independently deliver complex backend features • B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent from an accredited institution is a desired qualification • No visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote position • Office space in Los Altos, California available for San Francisco Bay Area residents who wish to utilize it