Your backend is held together by two retries nobody on the team can explain.
That is the hook line β the sentence that stops the scroll before the job title arrives. Everything under it is written to be read by a person, not filtered by a keyword engine.
The Reality
What you'll do
You will own the Node.js service that sits behind our checkout flow β not a slice of it, the whole path from request to receipt. Most weeks you are shipping to production on Tuesday and reading the fallout on Wednesday.
The first ninety days are unglamorous on purpose: you will map the service, kill the two retries nobody can explain, and write down how it actually behaves before you change it.
What We Need
The actual skills and stack
We are not screening for years. We are screening for whether you have run this shape of system while people were using it.
- CoreNode.js in production, not tutorials β you can reason about event-loop pressure under load.
- DataPostgreSQL beyond SELECT: indexes you chose deliberately, migrations you rolled back safely.
- SurfaceEnough React to ship your own admin views without waiting on a designer or a front-end hand-off.
- SignalOne written example of a system you debugged β a postmortem, a README, a long pull-request description.
The Trade-Offs
Salary, remote setup, benefits
The honest version, up front, so nobody finds out in week three.
- Salary$85kβ$115k depending on where you land against the four signals above. Published band, no negotiated shadow range.
- Remote setupRemote across IST Β±4 hours. A laptop and a $900 home-office budget, yours to keep after a year.
- BenefitsFour weeks off that we actually expect you to take, plus the last week of December off by default.
- The catchOn-call is shared, one week in four, and yes, it pages your phone at night.
Stripped before you ever see the draft
- Are you ready to level up?
- Look no further
- Exciting opportunity
Three of the openers the engine refuses to write. If it has heard the phrase in a thousand job ads, it does not leave the engine.

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