Application Engineer (Node.js)

Location: Bratislava, Slovakia

Base salary: EUR 2,800–4,600 per month for a full-time role, plus performance-based variable compensation and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides reinsurance, insurance and insurance-based risk transfer solutions, with more than 15,000 employees worldwide.

What you will do

• Design, develop and maintain production-grade RESTful APIs with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Integrate APIs with external services and third-party systems and manage their lifecycle through Azure API Management.
• Develop frontend components aligned with backend APIs and optimize PostgreSQL queries and stored procedures.
• Build automated unit, integration and system tests, review pull requests and prevent defects.
• Work with Git-based development, CI/CD pipelines and Docker-based containerized applications.
• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders across locations and support knowledge transfer through runbooks, shadowing and operational exercises.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a full-stack or API software developer.
• Hands-on experience developing production-grade APIs with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, JSON, YAML and Swagger/OpenAPI specifications, including API design, maintainability, testability and error handling.
• Good knowledge of PostgreSQL and SQL, including complex queries and stored procedures.
• Experience with frontend components using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Experience with automated unit, integration and system testing.
• Familiarity with Git, pull-request workflows, CI/CD pipelines and Docker-based application development.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work with technical and business stakeholders and globally distributed teams.
• Fluency in spoken and written English.

Nice to have

• Experience with Vue.js or another modern JavaScript frontend framework.
• Experience with Backstage, Azure API Management, Mocha, Bruno or Postman.
• Experience implementing automated quality gates through CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with the insurance industry or another regulated enterprise environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, inclusive and flexible environment focused on engineering quality, ownership and continuous improvement.
• Work on shared platform capabilities used by multiple application teams in an enterprise insurance environment.
• Global and location-specific benefits, plus performance-based variable compensation.
• Equal opportunities for professional development and support for employees returning after a career break.