Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

About The Role:

As a Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js) at Wristcheck, you’ll play a crucial role in developing innovative solutions and robust, scalable backend systems to power our cutting-edge watch marketplace. As the first designated Backend Engineer on the Buy Experience Squad, you will be innovating how customers purchase at Wristcheck, creating and enabling secure, seamless, best-in-class solutions to optimize our e-commerce development lifecycle. If you’re passionate about hands-on coding, transforming user experiences, and making an impact in the watch-tech space, then this role is for you!

This is a fully remote role based in Indonesia. Candidates will work local hours.

What you’ll be doing:

• Building, iterating, and deploying a highly efficient buying experience across major internet platforms, including desktop and mobile sites and our native app
• Expanding Wristcheck e-commerce framework capabilities while developing and maintaining secure, scalable backend systems using NodeJS, NestJS, and Typescript
• Implementing e-commerce solutions in accordance with latest standards, including enhancing payment gateway performance and security and our Wristcheck product search functionalities with cutting-edge search technologies such as Algoilia
• Leveraging data from our proprietary Wristcheck Index to enrich the buyer experience
• Driving out growth by developing robust backend user analytics and optimizing advertisement product feeds to enable discovery and recommendation of products
• Optimizing application performance and ensuring scalability on AWS infrastructure to enhance the Wristcheck experience for our global clientele
• Contributing to architectural decisions that will shape Wristcheck’s technical future!

What you’ll bring:

• 4+ years of experience in backend development, with a strong focus on Node.js, Typescript, and NestJS
• Proficiency in working with PostgreSQL and ORM frameworks such as Prisma and TypeORM
• Experience with AWS services such as SQS, SNS, and cloud architecture is a plus but not required
• Familiarity with OpenAPI specification, containerization technologies (e.g. Docker), CI/CD pipelines, and microservices architecture are major pluses!
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, particularly when working at scale with large numbers of users, transactions, and data points
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, especially in asynchronous settings to facilitate effective collaboration across remote teams

What we offer:

• Ownership and responsibility from day one – have a real impact on the company’s growth
• An open minded, transparent, and people-first culture
• A true idea meritocracy where the best ideas win, regardless of who or where they come from
• Work with people who are passionate and love what they do every day