Lead / Senior Backend Engineer (AWS Serverless, NodeJS)

• *About the role**

TeqEngine is hiring a Lead or Senior Backend Engineer to build and operate large-scale, production-grade serverless systems on AWS. You'll take ownership of backend architecture and delivery for API-driven products handling high-volume, real-time workloads. This is a hands-on role - you need to be someone who can independently drive solutions end to end, not just write code to a spec.

• *What you will do
• Lead backend architecture and implementation across AWS serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge)
• Design and build well-structured APIs (REST and/or GraphQL) supporting web and mobile experiences at scale
• Own end-to-end delivery from system design through production rollout and operational support
• Build resilient, event-driven services with strong observability (logging, metrics, tracing)
• Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency through practical engineering decisions
• Set technical direction, establish patterns, and help other engineers execute effectively
• Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into durable systems
• *What we are looking for
• Strong backend engineering experience with Node.js and TypeScript
• Production experience with AWS serverless - Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Step Functions, etc. This is not optional. You should have built and operated real systems on these services, not just done tutorials.
• Hands-on experience with Serverless Framework or AWS CDK for infrastructure as code and deployment automation
• Experience designing distributed, event-driven systems and API-first platforms
• Strong judgment around reliability, scaling, fault tolerance, and cost optimization
• Comfortable working autonomously with high ownership and high standards
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Claude, Cursor, etc.) - we ship faster with them and expect you to as well
• Clear communication, strong documentation habits, and pragmatic technical leadership
• US-based, full-time availability, remote
• *Technical stack (high level)
• Node.js / TypeScript
• AWS serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB)
• Infrastructure as code and automated delivery pipelines
• Event-driven patterns
• *Nice to have
• Experience building serverless systems in an enterprise environment (not just side projects or startups - systems with real compliance, operational, and scale requirements)
• Experience supporting high-traffic consumer or mobile-backed applications (millions of daily users/requests)
• Experience with operational excellence practices (runbooks, incident response, SLOs, on-call)
• Experience with multi-service architectures and cross-service orchestration
• *How to apply**

Send your resume or LinkedIn profile and a short note covering:

• A serverless system you built or led on AWS - what services you used, the scale it operated at, and what you owned end to end
• The most complex backend problem you solved recently and how you approached it
• Your availability and hourly rate expectations