Senior Backend Software Engineer - Node.js/TypeScript

About the Role

This is a full-time remote role for a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Makai. This person will be responsible for backend app development and will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement innovative solutions that enhance user experiences and drive business outcomes.

The Ideal Candidate Will Be Able to

• Develop new features across our Node.js/TypeScript backend services
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Collaborate with frontend developers and product designers to improve usability
• Write robust, clean, and documented code
• Maintain and enhance existing applications
• Conduct performance tests and ensure responsiveness and stability across all platforms

Qualifications

• Experience with Node.js and TypeScript required
• 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, including strong, current, hands-on experience building and running production services
• Experience building and running software in a regulated, compliance-heavy environment (e.g., healthcare and PHI, HIPAA, SOC 2, or HITRUST), with the access-control, audit-logging, and data-handling discipline that implies
• Proven ability to pick up new frameworks and tools quickly, and to reason about systems rather than rely on familiarity with a single specific stack
• Strong command of relational data modeling and an ORM, and of structured request/schema validation as a general practice
• Relevant experience using Docker
• Understanding of microservices architecture and related patterns
• Solid software engineering skills, with the ability to produce well-structured, maintainable code
• Familiarity with modern authorization mechanisms
• Solid experience working from a fully remote position

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with a Node.js application framework such as NestJS, Express, or Fastify
• Cloud-native experience on Azure, particularly containers and Kubernetes (AKS)
• Workflow orchestration with Temporal or a comparable durable-execution runtime
• Multi-tenant SaaS architecture: tenant isolation, row-level security, and attribute-based access control (ABAC)
• Legacy modernization or migration experience, carrying a live production system onto a new platform

How We Work

Small senior teams, real ownership. We'd rather have one engineer who understands a platform top to bottom than several who each own a slice.

Core Values for Makai Employees

• Be a flexible, innovative and creative thinker
• Be congenial and a team player
• Be self-sufficient
• Be self-driven with an ownership mentality
• Have a strong work ethic

Employment Type Full Time

• Fully remote role

Benefits

• Fully remote role, Eastern time zone
• Opportunities to work in-person with local colleagues
• Generous PTO
• Full health insurance premium reimbursement
• 401(k) matching
• Career growth & development opportunities