Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js / TypeScript)

About the role

Emanate Technology is partnering with a well-established national professional services organisation in Melbourne that is modernising its core platform. The client is rebuilding its legacy operational and practice management ecosystem into a modern, cloud-native, serverless architecture. The role is a pure backend engineering seat on a lean product pod, with an initial 3-month contract, starting immediately or with 2 weeks' notice. Australian citizens or permanent residents are required.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain serverless backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Build event-driven workflows, queues and idempotent consumers for reliable data synchronisation across internal and external platforms.
• Build and secure integration layers between modern cloud services and legacy core systems.
• Model and query NoSQL document databases to support high-availability application workflows.
• Work with a Tech Lead in a cross-functional squad to ship tested, production-ready code through automated CI/CD pipelines.

Required profile

• Recent commercial experience building production backend services in Node.js and TypeScript; this is a pure backend role, not a frontend or UI position.
• Hands-on delivery of serverless compute and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience designing asynchronous messaging patterns, pub/sub workflows and reliable retry/dead-letter handling.
• Experience with NoSQL document stores alongside relational databases.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing and production observability tools.

Required skills

• Node.js and TypeScript
• AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, EventBridge) and/or Azure (Azure Functions, Service Bus, APIM)
• NoSQL document databases such as DynamoDB, Cosmos DB or MongoDB

Working arrangement: hybrid, with 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home.