Software-Engineer, Backend-Engineer, NodeJS-Developer Jobs

Responsibilities

• Backend Architecture & System Design: Leads architecture of the backend platform — service and API structure, asynchronous and real-time processing, rate limiting and resiliency, and relational/document data modeling — documenting decisions for stakeholders.
• Senior-Level Backend Feature Development: Owns design and implementation of the most complex backend features using Node.js and TypeScript, delivering production-quality code that sets the team standard.
• Node.js Services & Next.js API Development: Designs and implements complex Next.js API routes and Node.js backend services — API design and contracts, authentication/authorization, caching, messaging, and relational/document database design and access — enabling frontend and mobile teams to build on stable, well-documented interfaces.
• Technical Leadership & Mentoring: Provides day-to-day technical leadership to the Node sub-team — leading code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and establishing and enforcing Node coding standards.
• Performance, Testing & CI/CD Ownership: Owns backend performance optimization, testing strategy, and CI/CD pipeline governance, ensuring HIPAA-compliant, secure, and high-availability services.

Qualifications

Required

Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
7+ years of professional software development experience with primary backend expertise
Deep, demonstrable proficiency with Node.js, TypeScript, and Next.js (API routes) building production services and APIs
Strong relational and document database design experience, and experience deploying and operating services on a cloud platform (Azure preferred)
Preferred
10+ years of professional experience in backend or full-stack development
Experience in healthcare technology, health insurance, or another regulated industry
Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7 FHIR, X12, NCPDP) as applied to data integration and API design
Experience with real-time systems (WebSockets), event-driven architecture, GraphQL/tRPC, and monorepo tooling

Telecommuting Requirements

This is a remote position. Our whole company works remotely. Company headquarters are in Dallas, Texas. Candidates must reside in the Eastern or Central time zones.
Company business hours are weekdays 9-5 CST.
As part of the interview process, finalists will be required to attend an in-person interview at our Dallas headquarters.
Required to have a dedicated work area established that is separate from other living areas and provides information privacy.
Ability to keep all company sensitive documents secure.
Must live in a location that receives an existing high-speed internet connection/service.

Originally posted on Himalayas

Who We Are

Decisionly is building AI-powered dispute decisioning for card issuers, eliminating cost and enabling compliant, scalable card operations. Decisionly automates complex manual workflows end-to-end, modernizing payment infrastructure and generating unique first-party fraud insights for fintechs, processors and banks.

Our founding team has a strong track record and unique founder-market fit. We founded Chargehound (backed by Y Combinator, Khosla), the first automated dispute solution for merchants like Airbnb, Uber and Doordash. PayPal acquired Chargehound in 2021 for $XXXM.

Decisionly is growing rapidly, has strong market validation, and is backed by Fika Ventures, Vesey Ventures, Dash Fund, and angels from top fintechs including Stripe and Plaid. We are a remote company.

As an early hire, you'll play a critical role in shaping our product development.

The Role

We're looking for a high-agency software engineer who thrives in a greenfield environment and likes building simple solutions for complex problems. As an engineer at Decisionly, you'll work directly with the CTO to shape the product and refine our technical vision. You'll be an early hire at a fast-growing fintech startup, working across the stack and taking ownership of key projects as we scale our product and acquire customers.

What You'll Do

• Research and develop new features across our product and infrastructure

• Build and maintain secure, scalable APIs for our service

• Incorporate compliance and security considerations into our tech stack

• Design and deploy infrastructure using Terraform and modern DevOps practices

• Integrate with third-party APIs to expand product footprint

• Act as a technical point of contact for customers

Who You Are

• 3+ years of backend development experience (within the payments industry is a plus)

• Experience working with clients

• Experience with Node and/or TypeScript

• Experience with PostgreSQL or equivalent database

• Able to tackle legacy systems or dense technical documentation with persistence and a sense of humor

• Experience deploying LLMs to production environments

• Familiarity with AWS, and preferably Terraform

• A fast learner who thrives in a dynamic, unstructured environment

• Experience in high-growth startups, fintech, enterprise SaaS, or regulated industries is a plus

Additional Info

• Competitive compensation and equity package

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship

• We are a remote-first team, but candidates must be based in the U.S.

Originally posted on Himalayas

Responsibilities

• Backend Architecture & System Design: Leads architecture of the backend platform — service and API structure, asynchronous and real-time processing, rate limiting and resiliency, and relational/document data modeling — documenting decisions for stakeholders.
• Senior-Level Backend Feature Development: Owns design and implementation of the most complex backend features using Node.js and TypeScript, delivering production-quality code that sets the team standard.
• Node.js Services & Next.js API Development: Designs and implements complex Next.js API routes and Node.js backend services — API design and contracts, authentication/authorization, caching, messaging, and relational/document database design and access — enabling frontend and mobile teams to build on stable, well-documented interfaces.
• Technical Leadership & Mentoring: Provides day-to-day technical leadership to the Node sub-team — leading code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and establishing and enforcing Node coding standards.
• Performance, Testing & CI/CD Ownership: Owns backend performance optimization, testing strategy, and CI/CD pipeline governance, ensuring HIPAA-compliant, secure, and high-availability services.

Qualifications

Required

Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
7+ years of professional software development experience with primary backend expertise
Deep, demonstrable proficiency with Node.js, TypeScript, and Next.js (API routes) building production services and APIs
Strong relational and document database design experience, and experience deploying and operating services on a cloud platform (Azure preferred)
Preferred
10+ years of professional experience in backend or full-stack development
Experience in healthcare technology, health insurance, or another regulated industry
Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7 FHIR, X12, NCPDP) as applied to data integration and API design
Experience with real-time systems (WebSockets), event-driven architecture, GraphQL/tRPC, and monorepo tooling

Telecommuting Requirements

This is a remote position. Our whole company works remotely. Company headquarters are in Dallas, Texas. Candidates must reside in the Eastern or Central time zones.
Company business hours are weekdays 9-5 CST.
As part of the interview process, finalists will be required to attend an in-person interview at our Dallas headquarters.
Required to have a dedicated work area established that is separate from other living areas and provides information privacy.
Ability to keep all company sensitive documents secure.
Must live in a location that receives an existing high-speed internet connection/service.

Originally posted on Himalayas