Location: Remote
Working Hours: 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM central european time
Contract: 12 Months initially
Salary: $6,000-$7,000 USD per month
About the Opportunity
We're partnering with an innovative technology company building high-performance, distributed applications used at scale. They're looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer with a strong backend focus to join their engineering team on a long-term contract.
This role is approximately 80% backend / 20% frontend, making it ideal for engineers who enjoy designing scalable systems, building resilient APIs, and working with event-driven architectures, while remaining comfortable contributing to the frontend when needed.
What You'll Be Doing
- Design and build scalable backend services using Node.js and TypeScript
- Develop and maintain applications across the MERN stack
- Architect and implement event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows
- Design APIs and microservices that can support high traffic and large-scale workloads
- Optimise application performance, reliability, and scalability
- Work closely with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality software
- Contribute to architectural decisions and engineering best practices
- Participate in code reviews and mentor other engineers where appropriate
What We're Looking For
Essential
- Strong commercial experience with the MERN stack
- Expert-level Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript development
- Experience building highly scalable, distributed systems
- Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging patterns
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
- Solid understanding of MongoDB and data modelling
- Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Familiarity with Docker and modern CI/CD pipelines
- Strong knowledge of software architecture and system design
- Excellent communication skills and experience working in remote teams
Nice to Have
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, EventBridge, or similar messaging technologies
- Microservices architecture experience
- Kubernetes experience
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Experience working within Agile engineering teams
About Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry unleashes potential in people, teams, and organizations. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. To learn more, please visit Korn Ferry at www.Kornferry.com
