Backend Engineer; Node/AWS - Leading Entertainment - Team + Greenfield Project
Listed on 2026-02-28
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Software Development
Backend Developer, Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Full Stack Developer
Location: New York
One of our key clients (A commerce driven tech company in the entertainment space) are looking for a Backend Engineer to join a BRAND NEW TEAM being tasked with building an exciting new greenfield initiative!
The team will be around 7 people and include 1 x EM, 1 x Lead Engineer + 3 x Software Engineers
Everything is greenfield and a chance to work on some really innovative work for the business...
Everything will be linked with their high‑scale and high‑traffic transactional platform with a global customer base.
This is a chance to join one of their product‑led engineering squads, working on services that sit right at the heart of a complex, event‑driven architecture.
You’ll collaborate closely with product, delivery, and other engineers to ship changes that are seen and felt immediately by customers.
What you’ll be working on
- Building backend services in Node.js and Type Script
- Developing serverless systems using AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, eventing services)
- Working with event‑driven architectures to support transactional and real‑time flows
- Building and evolving APIs used by multiple internal and external consumers
- Improving resilience, observability, and performance in high‑load environments
- Contributing to technical decisions, code reviews, and continuous improvement within your squad
What they're looking for - a MID LEVEL ENGINEER (Backend focused)
- Strong grounding in Node.js and Type Script
- Experience working with AWS/ Serverless/ Lambda
- SNS, SQS, Event Bridge
- Comfortable building and consuming APIs
- Familiarity with event‑driven systems or asynchronous messaging
- DynamoDB
- Microservices
Nice to have (but not essential)
- React.js/ Next
How we work
- Remote with occasional team meetups
- Small, autonomous product squads under an Engineering Manager
- A strong focus on clean code, collaboration, and learning
- Engineering decisions made close to the teams doing the work
What’s on offer
- Work on a real product at real scale
- Ownership, autonomy, and room to grow technically
- A supportive engineering culture that values quality and sustainability
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