Staff/Senior Backend Engineer (Node/TypeScript)

Staff/Senior Backend Engineer

Company

Morpho Labs

Conditions

21 hours agoLead Paris or remote (from -5 GMT up to +2h GMT to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team). Hybrid Backend Jobs by Morpho Labs

Skills

Node Performance Optimisation Reliability Incident Response Typescript System Design Graphql Postgresql Testing Observability Mentorship Data Modelling Production Operations Api

About the Role

You will build and maintain reliable, high-performance backend services and APIs using TypeScript/Node and GraphQL. You will model data and evolve relational schemas in PostgreSQL, optimise for correctness and performance, and simplify systems to reduce complexity and technical debt. You will collaborate with frontend, product, protocol, risk, and security teams to deliver end-to-end outcomes, monitor and improve production systems with a focus on observability and incident response, and, at senior levels, drive cross-team initiatives and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

• Senior level: ~3-5 years building backend systems, working with GraphQL APIs and relational databases (especially PostgreSQL)
• Staff level: ~8-10+ years of backend development, leading cross-team designs and shipping large ambiguous projects; deep strength in data modelling, performance optimisation and production operations
• Proven experience with TypeScript and Node
• Excellent written and asynchronous communication across time zones

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate backend services in TypeScript/Node and GraphQL
• Model data and evolve relational schemas (PostgreSQL), optimising for correctness, performance and maintainability
• Collaborate with frontend, product, protocol, risk and security teams to ship end-to-end outcomes
• Monitor, troubleshoot and improve production systems with emphasis on observability, incident response and reliability
• Simplify systems, reduce complexity, pay down technical debt and standardise patterns
• Drive cross-team initiatives, sponsor technical design, mentor engineers and own critical backend domains

Benefits

• Real flexibility
• Time together in Paris
• Great health coverage
• Support to keep learning

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