Employment: Remote, full-time Engagement length: Long-term, 12 months Start: Mid-October Time zone: CET (candidate location is flexible — EU, Balkans, Ukraine, CIS, Asia, Africa, Middle East)
Required:
Backend:
Node.js — 5+ years of commercial experience, NestJS, TypeScript in production
Solid understanding of the event loop, streams, and async patterns in Node
ORM/query builders: TypeORM, MikroORM, or Knex
BullMQ or similar task queue (retries, idempotency)
Python — 3+ years of commercial experience
Django/DRF: REST API design, ORM, migrations, serializers, permissions
FastAPI or another async framework in production
asyncio: async/await, concurrent task orchestration
Celery or similar for background task processing
MySQL/PostgreSQL: database design, query optimization, migrations
Message queues: RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar
Redis or similar for caching
WebSockets, real-time event delivery
Understanding of microservices architecture
Frontend:
React — 1.5+ years of commercial experience
TypeScript in production
State management: Redux/RTK/MobX
Data fetching: RTK-Query
Custom React Hooks
SASS/Bootstrap/Tailwind
Understanding of component composition and reusability
General:
Git (branching strategies, merge conflict resolution, code review)
Testing: Jest, Supertest, React Testing Library
API documentation: Swagger/OpenAPI
English B2+
Nice to have:
CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
Vector databases (Qdrant, pgvector), embedding/RAG pipelines
Docker
AWS/GCP/Azure
