Software Engineer (NodeJS and NextJS)

About Exoticca Exoticca is a pioneering online travel agency that has revolutionized the conception, production, and e-commerce of long-distance dream trips. At the core of Exoticca's brand equity is the commitment to “creating life milestones.” We believe in delivering best-value trips, exploring unique destinations, curating extraordinary travel experiences, and demonstrating genuine care for both our customers and the planet.

What are we proposing? We are looking for tech-heroes with the desire to contribute to our mission, who admire different world cultures and have huge respect for the environment, who moreover feel energized with challenges and love being part of our company growth.

Role As a Node.js Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and building a modern, scalable backend using NestJS, TypeScript, and MongoDB. You'll develop robust, maintainable services that power our platform, ensuring performance, reliability, and seamless integration across systems.

Your technical insight and creativity will help shape a modular, event‑driven architecture (EDA) that enables efficient communication between services and supports our continuous growth and evolution of our e‑commerce website.

Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable backend services, contributing to the evolution of a modern, event‑driven architecture

Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions that are reliable, efficient, and easy to extend

Implement and maintain clean service interfaces and data flows following EDA principles, ensuring smooth communication between components and systems

Write high‑quality, testable code supported by automated testing and continuous integration pipelines

Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical design sessions to uphold engineering standards and promote knowledge sharing

Continuously improve system design and development practices to support scalability and future growth of the platform

Requirements

5+ years of experience building and maintaining backend applications in Node.js production environments

Hands‑on experience with MongoDB, including data modeling and performance optimization for document‑based systems

Solid knowledge of RESTful API design, development, and integration best practices

Experience working with event‑driven architectures (EDA) and message‑based communication between services

Familiarity with Domain‑Driven Design (DDD) and clean architecture principles

Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control best practices using Git (GitHub Actions or similar)

Strong emphasis on testing (unit, integration) and commitment to code quality, scalability, and maintainability

Familiarity with observability practices — including logging, monitoring, and tracing — to ensure visibility and reliability across distributed services

Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript for building scalable, maintainable backend services

Proven ability to design and integrate RESTful APIs with attention to performance and reliability

Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively within cross‑functional teams

Benefits

Competitive compensation package, in line with job responsibilities and experience

Flexible compensation on transportation and food with Cobee also in our private health insurance

Flexible working schedule, just make sure you meet your monthly goals!

100% Remote working within Spain

Permanent contract from the start

Travel with Exoticca at reduced prices!

Referral bonus, if you bring people as talented as you can earn a very nice bonus!

Be part of a fun and motivated multicultural team at an agile and rapid growing organization where teamwork, drive, commitment, resilience and customer‑centricity are core values

Exoticca is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusiveness are our core. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under European, country, or local law.