Senior Software Engineer

Description

What We’re Looking For: We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Level 3 or Level 4) to help scale, stabilize, and evolve core platform services that power critical functionality across Meltwater. In this role, you’ll work on high-impact, high-traffic systems focused on authentication, permissions, provisioning, and other foundational capabilities that enable product teams to move faster without sacrificing reliability. You’ll play a key role in improving performance, reducing technical debt, and driving long-term platform evolution in a Node.js environment, with an ongoing transition from JavaScript to TypeScript. This is a great opportunity for an engineer who thrives on ownership, enjoys solving complex backend challenges, and wants to influence system architecture at scale.

What You'll Do

• Build, maintain, and improve backend services that support company-wide functionality
• Develop production-grade Node.js services using JavaScript and TypeScript
• Migrate existing JavaScript services to TypeScript to improve scalability and maintainability
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks (caching, async processing, latency, throughput)
• Reduce technical debt and simplify service architecture for long-term efficiency
• Improve system observability, monitoring, and operational readiness
• Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems and ensure reliability
• Collaborate closely with product, frontend, and UX teams to deliver scalable features
• Contribute to architectural decisions, service design, and platform evolution

For more senior scope (Level 4)

• Own backend services end-to-end, from design through production support
• Lead technical initiatives including migrations, refactoring, and system improvements
• Drive cross-team collaboration and influence engineering standards and best practices
• Mentor engineers and provide guidance on technical design and execution

What You'll Bring

• Experience building and maintaining backend services in production environments
• Strong proficiency in Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience working with high-traffic or business-critical systems
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs (GraphQL experience is a plus)
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Knowledge of performance optimization techniques (caching, async processing, data access patterns)
• Experience with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Jasmine)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred; alternatives like CircleCI, Jenkins, etc. acceptable)
• Experience monitoring, debugging, and operating production systems
• Comfort working in distributed, cross-functional teams

Infrastructure & Platform

• Experience with cloud environments (preferably AWS: Lambda, EC2/Beanstalk, SNS/SQS, S3)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Exposure to Kubernetes is a plus

Leadership & Collaboration

• Experience leading projects, features, or technical initiatives
• Ability to influence architecture and technical direction
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to independently identify and drive improvements
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with product and UX teams

AI & Developer Productivity

• Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, OpenAI tools) to improve development workflows
• Ability to apply AI to enhance code quality, testing, and development speed
• Experience contributing to prompts, guidelines, or best practices for AI usage within engineering teams

Nice to Have

• Experience owning shared or platform-level services
• Background in authentication, authorization, or identity systems
• Experience refactoring legacy systems or consolidating services
• Experience supporting systems used by multiple downstream teams

What We Offer

• Enjoy private health insurance through MetLife for you and your dependents, complementing your state medical coverage
• Benefit from a company-matched Savings Fund to help you grow your financial security
• Receive monthly grocery vouchers to support your everyday essentials
• Enjoy an additional day off on your birthday, promoting a healthy work-life balance
• Complimentary CalmApp subscription for you and your loved ones because mental wellness