Essential
- 5+ years of professional backend development experience
- Strong Node.js + TypeScript skills — this is your primary tool
- Solid experience with WebSockets / socket.io
- Good grasp of REST API design: auth, error handling, versioning
- Comfortable with Redis (pub/sub, caching, queues)
- SQL and relational database experience — AWS RDS / MySQL preferred
- Experience with message/job queues (Bee Queue, SQS, or similar)
- Solid logging and observability practice (structured logs, metrics, alerting)
- Proven experience with AWS services and a real understanding of AWS networking
- Comfortable working at pace in a small, high-trust team
Nice to Have
- Exposure to IoT systems — firmware interaction, physical device constraints, debugging connectivity
- Experience with real-time mobile app communications
- API versioning and backward compatibility experience
- Monitoring and alerting setup experience
- A track record of scaling systems through periods of significant growth
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