Senior Backend Engineer – High‑Traffic Real Estate Platform

About the role

Property Finder is seeking a senior backend engineer to own and evolve the services that power its high‑traffic consumer surfaces such as search, property listings and location content across multiple countries and languages.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and operate backend services powering high‑traffic consumer surfaces such as search and property listings.
• Own the full lifecycle from design through deployment, observability and iterative improvement.
• Develop new services in TypeScript (Node.js) and maintain existing Go services.
• Work on caching, CDN behaviour, content delivery and rendering paths to optimise cost and performance.
• Support multi‑country and multi‑language localisation from day one.
• Collaborate with product, SEO, data and front‑end teams to deliver maintainable systems.
• Drive operational excellence through monitoring, alerting and incident response.
• Mentor engineers, review designs and PRs, and shape backend standards.

Required profile

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience on high‑traffic, consumer‑facing platforms.
• Strong expertise in TypeScript (Node.js); ability to work with Go.
• Hands‑on experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL), caching (Redis) and search engines (OpenSearch/Elasticsearch).
• Production experience on AWS with containerised workloads and deep observability knowledge.
• Proven ability to design distributed services, API boundaries and versioning.
• Experience with event‑driven architectures (Kafka, SQS) and edge computing (Lambda@Edge, CloudFront).

Required skills

• TypeScript (Node.js)
• Go
• MySQL / PostgreSQL
• Redis
• OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
• AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, CloudFront)
• Docker / container orchestration
• Observability tools (metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, SLOs)
• Kafka or SQS
• Lambda@Edge, CloudFront
• SEO best practices
• AI/LLM integration (AWS Bedrock)