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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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Skills
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Docker
- Microservices architecture
- Relational data modeling
- ORM
- Structured request/schema validation
- Modern authorization mechanisms
- NestJS
- Express
- Fastify
- Azure
- Kubernetes (AKS)
- Temporal
- Multi-tenant SaaS architecture
- Legacy modernization
- Migration
Location
- Remote
- Eastern time zone
Work Type
- Full Time
- Fully remote
Experience Level
- Senior
- 7+ years
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
About the Company
- Makai uses best-in-class AI and data to solve real-world operational and strategic challenges at scale.
- We help businesses with enterprise automation, human-machine teaming, product design and development, and market intelligence.
- Until now, people have had to learn and adapt to software.
- Makai creates solutions that adapt to people because technology will never be 100% accurate.
- People are essential for all of our human-machine teaming solutions.
- 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.
- 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