Backend Engineer

Description

The company builds software that connects the physical and digital worlds, helping businesses improve operations, build better products, and equip their people.

The company has nearly 7,000 people across the world.

You would join the Pipeline squad, which owns the infrastructure, build, release, and security foundations that the other squads on the product depend on.

The product is a SaaS collaboration platform built as a NestJS and Angular monorepo. It runs on Azure Kubernetes, is deployed with Helm, is shipped through GitLab CI/CD, and sits within the wider platform.

The squad's goal is to make shipping quick, safe, and uneventful so product squads can focus on features.

Responsibilities

• Take services from development through deployment and keep them running in production.
• Build and maintain backend services, mainly in TypeScript, Node.js, and NestJS.
• Improve the GitLab CI/CD pipelines for build, test, security, and deployment.
• Deploy and troubleshoot services using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Simplify developer tooling and workflows, especially where manual work can be removed.
• Improve observability, monitoring, and debugging across services.
• Work with DevOps on infrastructure and automation, including Terraform and Azure where needed.
• Work across backend development, CI/CD, and the platform, not only application code.

Requirements

• Strong backend development experience, ideally with TypeScript, Node.js, and NestJS.
• Good CI/CD experience, ideally with GitLab CI.
• Good experience with Docker and practical Kubernetes experience.
• Experience deploying and troubleshooting services in real environments, not only developing them locally.
• A good understanding of testing, debugging, logging, and monitoring.
• Comfort working across application and infrastructure or deployment.
• Helm, Terraform, and Azure/AKS experience would be useful, but none of these is a hard requirement.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, APIs, and asynchronous or messaging systems would also be useful.
• Experience creating agentic development workflows or writing and maintaining AI skills.
• Experience with npm workspaces or shared-package build systems.
• Experience supporting SaaS platforms with strict data-privacy requirements for enterprise and multinational customers.

Conditions

The team prefers established paths and sensible defaults over highly customised setups.

Simplicity, meaning doing as little unnecessary work as possible, is essential.

Developers own problems end to end, and the tooling favours end-to-end workflows over separate platform components.