Staff/Principal Backend Engineer (Node.js)
Top Benefits
About the role
About the Role
As a Staff/Principal Backend Developer, you'll play a key strategic and technical leadership role within a collaborative, cross-functional team. You’ll drive the design and evolution of complex backend systems that power mission-critical, customer-facing applications. Beyond implementation, you’ll help shape architectural standards, mentor engineers, and influence product and platform decisions. We operate in a Kanban environment with a strong emphasis on clean architecture, observability, and system performance at scale.
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop scalable, high-performance backend services using Node.js, with occasional use of Python for data-centric processes.
- Lead the design of event-driven systems with robust observability using Data Dog, and advocate for architectural patterns that support reliability and performance.
- Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent deployments (e.g., Blue-Green or Canary strategies).
- Guide infrastructure design and improvements using Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform on GCP.
- Optimize and scale MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis databases to ensure reliability, consistency, and low latency at high volumes.
- Collaborate across remote and in-office teams to align backend architecture with product direction.
- Communicate technical vision and complex concepts clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Provide mentorship to senior and intermediate engineers, promoting engineering best practices and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
- Deep expertise in Node.js, MySQL, and designing event-driven architectures.
- Strong experience deploying production systems to cloud environments, ideally GCP, using Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Proven ability to manage, scale, and tune MongoDB and Redis in production.
- Expert understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and observability tools.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence engineering and product direction.
- Track record of technical mentorship, leading design reviews, and setting high-quality coding standards.
- (Bonus) Familiarity with front-end technologies like React is a plus.
Pay range and compensation package
$160,000 - $200,000
About TLNT Bridge Recruiting
Our small team profoundly understands the ever-changing tech landscape, and we stay ahead of the curve on emerging trends and technologies. Our niche expertise serves companies seeking to hire top-tier professionals focused on the importance of Digital Transformation.
When you work with us, you are paired with our principal recruiter, approaching three decades in the recruitment profession, ensuring the highest standard of recruiting practices and streamlining the process for organizations of all sizes.
We are located in Vancouver, BC, Canada, but we service organizations across Canada and the USA.
Staff/Principal Backend Engineer (Node.js)
Top Benefits
About the role
About the Role
As a Staff/Principal Backend Developer, you'll play a key strategic and technical leadership role within a collaborative, cross-functional team. You’ll drive the design and evolution of complex backend systems that power mission-critical, customer-facing applications. Beyond implementation, you’ll help shape architectural standards, mentor engineers, and influence product and platform decisions. We operate in a Kanban environment with a strong emphasis on clean architecture, observability, and system performance at scale.
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop scalable, high-performance backend services using Node.js, with occasional use of Python for data-centric processes.
- Lead the design of event-driven systems with robust observability using Data Dog, and advocate for architectural patterns that support reliability and performance.
- Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, frequent deployments (e.g., Blue-Green or Canary strategies).
- Guide infrastructure design and improvements using Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform on GCP.
- Optimize and scale MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis databases to ensure reliability, consistency, and low latency at high volumes.
- Collaborate across remote and in-office teams to align backend architecture with product direction.
- Communicate technical vision and complex concepts clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Provide mentorship to senior and intermediate engineers, promoting engineering best practices and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
- Deep expertise in Node.js, MySQL, and designing event-driven architectures.
- Strong experience deploying production systems to cloud environments, ideally GCP, using Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Proven ability to manage, scale, and tune MongoDB and Redis in production.
- Expert understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and observability tools.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence engineering and product direction.
- Track record of technical mentorship, leading design reviews, and setting high-quality coding standards.
- (Bonus) Familiarity with front-end technologies like React is a plus.
Pay range and compensation package
$160,000 - $200,000
About TLNT Bridge Recruiting
Our small team profoundly understands the ever-changing tech landscape, and we stay ahead of the curve on emerging trends and technologies. Our niche expertise serves companies seeking to hire top-tier professionals focused on the importance of Digital Transformation.
When you work with us, you are paired with our principal recruiter, approaching three decades in the recruitment profession, ensuring the highest standard of recruiting practices and streamlining the process for organizations of all sizes.
We are located in Vancouver, BC, Canada, but we service organizations across Canada and the USA.