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