Nest JS

Role Summary
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong backend development experience to join a product engineering team building a modern, cloud-based platform. The role involves designing and developing scalable backend services, APIs, integrations, and background processing workflows. The engineer will work closely with customer's architects and principal engineers to design and implement backend services within a modern cloud-native microservices architecture.
This is a hands-on engineering role. Experience in eLearning, authoring tools, LMS platforms, coaching or digital content systems is preferred.
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Responsibilities
•     Develop and enhance backend microservices using TypeScript and NestJS.
•     Translate functional and technical requirements into reliable software solutions.
•     Design scalable REST APIs following established architectural standards.
•     Contribute to domain-driven service implementation.
•     Collaborate with Principal Engineers during service modeling and API design.
•     Own delivery of assigned backend modules from development through testing.
•     Troubleshoot production and integration issues.
•     Participate in sprint planning, design discussions and technical reviews.
•     Ensure adherence to coding standards, security practices and performance guidelines.
•     Work directly within the customer's Git repositories and CI/CD processes.
•     Write unit tests and integration tests to ensure software quality.
•     Review code, troubleshoot technical issues, and support defect resolution.
•     Collaborate with frontend engineers, architects, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and product managers.
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Required Skills
Must Have
•     5–8 years of software engineering experience
•     Strong TypeScript development experience
•     Strong experience with NestJS
•     Experience building REST APIs
•     Strong understanding of Microservices architecture
•     AWS development experience
•     Docker
•     Git
•     CI/CD pipelines
•     Unit Testing
•     Integration Testing
•     SQL and NoSQL databases
•     Strong debugging skills
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Preferred Skills
•     AWS CDK
•     Event-driven architecture
•     Domain Driven Design
•     GraphQL
•     Redis
•     Kafka/SQS/SNS
•     OAuth/JWT authentication
•     Kubernetes
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AI Engineering Experience
Preferred:
•     Experience using GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code or similar AI-assisted development tools
•     Experience building AI-enabled product features
•     Familiarity with prompt engineering and LLM integrations
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Soft Skills
•     Strong ownership mindset
•     Excellent communication
•     Ability to work with distributed product teams
•     Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum
•     Fast learner capable of ramping up on an existing codebase
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Competencies needed:
•     Clear technical communication
•     Ability to contribute to an existing production codebase rather than greenfield development.
•     Experience working within another organization's engineering processes and standards.
•     Familiarity with trunk-based development and pull-request-driven workflows.
•     Strong code review practices and engineering discipline.
•     Experience delivering production-quality software under aggressive timelines.
•     Comfort using AI-assisted engineering tools while maintaining high code quality.
•     Strong ownership, collaboration, and documentation skills.