Senior Software Engineer (NodeJS, AWS)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (NodeJS, AWS): Designing and implementing high-scale backend systems for a global social discovery platform with an accent on serverless architecture and event-driven processing. Focus on optimizing AWS infrastructure, reducing technical debt, and ensuring system reliability for millions of users.

Location: Worldwide Remote

Company

One of the world's largest groups of social discovery companies, specializing in platforms that connect people across different cultures globally.

What you will do

• Collaborate with stakeholders to design effective technical solutions considering trade-offs between timelines, resources, and quality.
• Design high-level architecture and create detailed implementation plans.
• Implement technical solutions including DevOps practices for monitoring, security, and scalability.
• Deploy and monitor production systems, resolving incidents across AWS infrastructure and AI providers.
• Continuously improve system stability, performance, and reduce technical debt.
• Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines, code quality tooling, and automated testing practices.

Requirements

• 3+ years of production experience with TypeScript and Node.js (ESM).
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS CDK (v2) for infrastructure-as-code.
• Deep knowledge of AWS serverless (Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, EventBridge).
• Solid understanding of event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing patterns.
• Experience with DynamoDB data modeling and access patterns.
• English: B1 or higher.

Nice to have

• Linux server administration (Ubuntu), including SSH, Nginx, and SSL/TLS certificates.
• Experience managing GPU instances for LLM inference.
• Experience with AWS analytics stack (Kinesis Firehose, Glue, Athena, Parquet).
• Experience with AWS CloudWatch dashboards and observability tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time remote work opportunity.
• 28 calendar days of annual vacation and 7 additional wellness days.
• Health benefits: up to $1,000 gross per year for health insurance or medical fees.
• Workplace organization: up to $1,000 gross every 3 years for home office or co-working equipment.
• 50% reimbursement for professional training and international conferences.
• Referral bonuses up to $5,000 and corporate discounts for English lessons.