Senior Node.js Backend Architect Needed

I’m ramping up an urgent real-estate platform and need a seasoned backend expert who can jump in immediately and own API development from end to end. The engagement is fully remote, contract-based, and demands someone with 8+ years of hands-on experience building production systems.

Your core mission will be to design and implement high-performance REST APIs in Node.js with NestJS, wire them to PostgreSQL through Prisma ORM, and expose them via a clean, versioned microservice architecture. You should feel equally at home spinning up infrastructure on AWS—think EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda—or a comparable VPS, and you’ll push everything through Git-driven workflows.

Beyond the must-haves, I’ll lean on you to fine-tune performance with Redis or a queue system such as Bull or RabbitMQ, containerise with Docker, and automate deployments through a sensible CI/CD pipeline. If WebSockets are second nature, that’s a plus we can quickly leverage for real-time features.

Day-to-day you will:
• Shape the database schema, keep migrations tidy, and safeguard data integrity.
• Write clean, testable NestJS code that scales under load.
• Package, deploy, and monitor services so we can iterate fast without downtime.
• Collaborate directly with a small frontend and product team, providing clear technical guidance and code reviews.

If you can start right away, send over your portfolio, a brief note on your availability, and any links that showcase similar API-heavy projects you’ve delivered. Let’s build something great—quickly and cleanly.