Senior Backend Platform Engineer
A senior engineer supporting and maintaining a large-scale conversational/integration platform for an enterprise client: investigating hard-to-reproduce production incidents, doing root cause analysis, and keeping distributed Node.js/NestJS/Redis microservices reliable, ideally on GCP. Hybrid role based in Budapest with one onsite day per week.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Not listed
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, and Redis
- Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting microservice-based architectures
- Proven experience supporting production systems and managing live incidents
- Strong debugging, root cause analysis, and problem-solving skills
- Experience with REST API integrations and distributed systems
- Experience with cloud platforms (preferably GCP)
- Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability practices
- Ability to work independently in complex environments with limited documentation
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Based in Hungary and eligible to work in Hungary
- Participate in on-call rotations and communicate incident impact/resolution plans
Nice to have
- Terraform
- BigQuery
- Event-driven architectures
- CI/CD pipelines
- Conversational platforms or chatbot ecosystems
- AI-enabled platforms and integrations
- React
Full description
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a highly experienced Backend Platform Engineer to join a team supporting a large-scale conversational and integration platform operating in a complex enterprise environment.
This is not a traditional feature-development role. The primary focus is on maintaining platform reliability, investigating complex production issues, and supporting a highly distributed ecosystem of services, integrations, and data flows.
You will work in an environment where rare and difficult-to-reproduce production anomalies can occur across multiple interconnected services. Success in this role requires deep expertise in NestJS, Redis, and distributed systems, combined with strong ownership and problem-solving skills.
Location: Budapest, Hungary (Hybrid)
This position follows a hybrid working model with 1 day per week onsite presence in Budapest. We are currently considering applicants who are based in Hungary and eligible to work in Hungary.
YOU WILL
- Support and maintain business-critical backend services built with Node.js, NestJS, and Redis
- Investigate complex production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive issues through resolution
- Analyze logs, traces, monitoring data, and application behavior to diagnose system anomalies
- Troubleshoot distributed systems, microservices, integrations, and high-volume data flows
- Support and optimize Redis-based workloads, caching strategies, and platform performance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement
- Participate in on-call rotations and communicate incident impact and resolution plans to stakeholders
- Contribute to knowledge sharing, observability improvements, and platform stability initiatives
YOU HAVE
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, and Redis
- Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting microservice-based architectures
- Proven experience supporting production systems and managing live incidents
- Strong debugging, root cause analysis, and problem-solving skills
- Experience with REST API integrations and distributed systems
- Experience working with cloud platforms (preferably GCP)
- Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability practices
- Ability to work independently in complex environments with limited documentation