Makai Labs - Senior Backend Software Engineer
Requirements
• Develop new features across our Node.js/TypeScript backend services • Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability • Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs • Collaborate with frontend developers and product designers to improve usability • Write robust, clean, and documented code • Maintain and enhance existing applications • Conduct performance tests and ensure responsiveness and stability across all platforms • Experience with Node.js and TypeScript required • 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, including strong, current, hands-on experience building and running production services • Experience building and running software in a regulated, compliance-heavy environment (e.g., healthcare and PHI, HIPAA, SOC 2, or HITRUST), with the access-control, audit-logging, and data-handling discipline that implies • Proven ability to pick up new frameworks and tools quickly, and to reason about systems rather than rely on familiarity with a single specific stack • Strong command of relational data modeling and an ORM, and of structured request/schema validation as a general practice • Understanding of microservices architecture and related patterns • Solid software engineering skills, with the ability to produce well-structured, maintainable code • Familiarity with modern authorization mechanisms • Solid experience working from a fully remote position • Nice-to-haves • Nice-to-haves • Experience with a Node.js application framework such as NestJS, Express, or Fastify • Cloud-native experience on Azure, particularly containers and Kubernetes (AKS) • Workflow orchestration with Temporal or a comparable durable-execution runtime • Multi-tenant SaaS architecture: tenant isolation, row-level security, and attribute-based access control (ABAC) • Legacy modernization or migration experience, carrying a live production system onto a new platform • How we work • How we work • Small senior teams, real ownership. We'd rather have one engineer who understands a platform top to bottom than several who each own a slice. • Core values for Makai employees • Be a flexible, innovative and creative thinker • Be congenial and a team player • Be self-sufficient • Be self-driven with an ownership mentality • Have a strong work ethic • Employment Type Full Time • Fully remote role
Responsibilities
• Primarily technical leadership, architecture, or people management • Primarily project/product management with some development involvement • Describe your experience working with databases as a backend engineer. Please include the databases you’ve used, the kinds of queries and schema work you’ve done, and how you’ve handled data access in application code (ORMs, query builders, raw SQL). • Tell us about a production issue in a Node.js service where you identified the root cause. What was the symptom, how did you investigate, and what did you find? (Examples: memory growth, event-loop blocking, race conditions, unhandled rejections.) • How would you troubleshoot an API endpoint that intermittently returns incorrect data? • Describe your experience with asynchronous or long-running processing — message queues, background jobs, scheduled work, or workflow orchestration. What did you use, and how did you handle retries and failures? • Describe the structure of a recent team you worked on. • Please describe your experience using AI/ML tools or AI-assisted platforms (such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Copilot) within software development, testing, debugging, or documentation workflows.
Benefits
• Makai uses best-in-class AI and data to solve real-world operational and strategic challenges at scale. We help businesses with enterprise automation, human-machine teaming, product design and development, and market intelligence. Until now, people have had to learn and adapt to software. Makai creates solutions that adapt to people because technology will never be 100% accurate. People are essential for all of our human-machine teaming solutions. • This is a full-time remote role for a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Makai. This person will be responsible for backend app development and will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement innovative solutions that enhance user experiences and drive business outcomes. • Fully remote role, Eastern time zone • Opportunities to work in-person with local colleagues • Full health insurance premium reimbursement • 401(k) matching • Career growth & development opportunities
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