Hire Node.js developers
REST/GraphQL APIs, NestJS, queues, Postgres
Backend engineers who build the API your front end depends on: typed, tested, instrumented, and able to survive the traffic spike you have not had yet.
The Node.js market is full of people who can build a CRUD API. Far fewer can tell you why p95 latency doubled after last Thursday's release, or design a queue that does not lose a payment when a worker dies halfway through a job. The second group is who we put on your team.
Our Node engineers work mostly in NestJS and Fastify, with Prisma or Drizzle over PostgreSQL, Redis for caching and BullMQ for background work. They write the OpenAPI or GraphQL contract first so the front-end team is not sitting idle waiting on them, and they instrument what they ship: structured logs, traces, and a dashboard worth opening during an incident rather than after one.
They are also comfortable with the parts nobody demos. Migrations that run safely against live data. Idempotent webhook handlers. Rate limits, retries with backoff, and the difference between a transaction and a distributed one. Nearly every incident we have inherited from another team came from getting one of those four wrong.
When a dedicated Node.js developer is the right call. The front end is moving faster than the API behind it. You are breaking up a monolith and want someone who has drawn service boundaries before to draw yours. Integrations, payments, CRM, shipping, ERP, keep failing quietly and nobody notices until finance does. Or you want backend cover so your own team can stay on product.
When it is not. Heavy data and machine-learning pipelines belong in Python, and we will point you there. A thin API behind a Next.js site usually does not need a separate backend engineer at all: a full-stack Next.js developer covers it for less money.
Every engagement finishes with a handover somebody can actually read. Architecture notes, a runbook, environment setup, and a Postman or Bruno collection. If the engineer moves on, you are not left reverse-engineering your own system.
What they do
REST and GraphQL APIs
NestJS or Fastify services with OpenAPI contracts, versioning, validation at the boundary, and typed clients generated for your front end.
Databases and migrations
PostgreSQL and MongoDB schema design, indexing, query tuning, and migrations rehearsed against a restored snapshot before they touch production.
Queues and background jobs
BullMQ, RabbitMQ or SQS workers with retries, dead-letter handling and idempotency, so a failed job never turns into a lost order.
Third-party integrations
Stripe, Razorpay, Shopify, HubSpot, Twilio and courier APIs, with signed webhooks, replay tooling and sandbox coverage before go-live.
Performance and observability
Event-loop lag profiling, connection pooling, caching layers, and OpenTelemetry traces on a dashboard you can read while the phone is ringing.
Auth and security
OAuth and OIDC, JWT and session strategy, RBAC, secret management, and the OWASP checks a penetration test will fail you on if skipped.
Skills
Seniority & rates
Sample profiles
Engagement models
Hourly
For bursts of work and part-time needs. Minimum 40 hours. Time tracked in Hubstaff, reported weekly.
- Pay for logged hours only
- Scale up or down weekly
- Same senior engineer throughout
Dedicated monthly
One engineer, full-time, inside your team and your tools. Eight hours a day, five days, in your timezone window.
- 15-day risk-free trial
- Free replacement, no argument
- Daily stand-up, sprint reporting
- NDA + 100% IP assignment
Dedicated pod
Tech lead, three engineers and QA, run as a Scrum team with a delivery manager included in the price.
- Fixed sprint cadence
- Delivery manager at no cost
- Architecture and code review built in
How to hire
Describe the traffic and the integrationsDay 0
What the API does, what it talks to, and which part currently keeps you awake. Seniority, timezone and start date, and we can begin.
Profiles with a system behind them48 h
Two or three CVs, each with an architecture diagram or a service the engineer can describe end to end. Rate, notice period and start date arrive together.
Interview, ideally on a failure case2–4 days
Ask what happens when the worker dies mid-job. The answers separate people quickly. No charge at this stage and no pressure on a profile you doubt.
Trial on a real endpointDays 1–15
A live ticket in week one, usually an endpoint or a failing integration. By week two you should have a written view of your data model or queue design. Swap or stop, unbilled.
Access, then autonomyOngoing
NDA and IP before the first commit, least-privilege access in your own cloud account, stand-up in your timezone from week one. Pause on 30 days' notice.
FAQ
NestJS or Express, which do your developers use?
NestJS for anything past a handful of endpoints, because the structure pays for itself the day a second developer joins. Fastify or Express when the service is small and latency-sensitive. If your codebase is already Express, they work in Express. We do not rewrite for taste on your budget.
Can one engineer cover both the API and DevOps?
For a small service, yes. Docker, GitHub Actions and a managed database are within scope. For Kubernetes, Terraform and a multi-account AWS estate, hire a DevOps engineer alongside. Splitting the roles costs less than paying senior backend rates for infrastructure work.
How do you handle database migrations on live data?
Expand and contract. Additive migration, dual write, backfill, switch reads, then drop the old column in a later release. Every migration is reversible and rehearsed against a restored snapshot before it goes anywhere near production traffic.
Will they be on call?
During your working window, yes. That is what the timezone overlap buys you. Genuine 24/7 on-call needs at least three engineers to be sustainable, and we will say that rather than quietly burn out one person and lose them.
What do we get at handover?
Architecture notes, a runbook for the failures that actually happen, environment setup, an API collection, and a two-week pairing overlap with whoever takes over. Part of the engagement, not a line item at the end.
Do you work with our existing cloud account?
Yes. The engineer works inside your AWS, GCP or Azure account with least-privilege access, and every credential stays with you. We do not host client production systems on our own infrastructure, ever.
Tell us the role. Profiles in 48 hours.
No retainer to see CVs, and no invoice until the trial ends and you say yes.