About the role
Responsibilities:
- Architect Node.js systems that scale from zero to millions; resilient, battle-tested, and ready for anything.
- Tear apart bottlenecks before they become outages.
- Build a backend that auto-heals, scales without begging, and doesn't melt at 1M RPM.
- Own the full lifecycle; from feature idea to scaling in production.
- Guide engineers, set the technical bar, and call out flawed designs.
- Think ahead: design for chaos, failovers, and ugly realities before they happen.
Requirements:
- You've watched a system catch fire and brought it back with grit and caffeine.
- You've scaled services under brutal load and lived to tell the story.
- You know Node.js beyond frameworks: profiling, event loop internals, and async churn.
- You can rip apart AWS quirks (RDS slow queries, ElastiCache meltdowns, S3 limits) in your sleep.
- You don't wait for instructions; you see a mess and fix it.
Bonus XP (Things That Impress Us):
- You've taken systems to 100M+ users or 6-digit RPS.
- You've crushed AWS bills without slowing down a single request.
- You've built real-time madness: Kafka, Kinesis, WebSockets.
- You've designed secure-by-default infra: IAM, VPC, and KMS.