[Hiring] Node Architect @Netguru

Role Description

We are looking for a Staff Node.js Developer - Architecture. This role is fully remote, and we accept candidates from anywhere around the globe, given that candidates are within an acceptable time-zone difference to UTC+4 (at least 5 hours of overlap).

Salary: up to 42 EUR/h (on a B2B)

Start date: September 2026

Duration: till 31.12.2026

Engagement: Full-time

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience
• Comfortable designing across several teams' surfaces
• Strong written English
• Collaborative style

Requirements

• Anticipate future use cases and design to minimize the cost of change
• Anticipate scaling limits across a domain before they bind
• Review others' designs substantively
• Work comfortably as a technical peer to Staff engineers and engineering managers
• Design services using well-understood patterns for iterative, autonomous development
• Design for expected peak load rather than average
• Build components other teams can adopt, with documentation and a migration path
• Design with abuse in mind by default
• Reading and being able to explain every line of AI-generated code you ship
• Testing that actually covers edge and failure cases
• Working command of OWASP Top 10 and secure-by-default habits

Responsibilities

• This isn't a "managed team" gig and it isn't ticket-closing work.
• Help deciding what to build, where the boundaries sit, what breaks first under load, and what's expensive to change a year from now.
• Work as a technical peer to the client's Staff engineers and engineering managers.
• Dig into an existing multi-product architecture to understand why it looks the way it does before proposing changes.
• Deliver an honest, evidence-based assessment of code and design quality across product lines.
• Write and review RFCs and ADRs for new and evolving systems.
• Design extend-vs-rebuild decisions with the migration path built in from day one.
• Work with real constraints: multi-currency payments, fraud and abuse exposure, PCI DSS scope, third-party supplier integrations, and traffic spikes up to 65x baseline.

Benefits

• 100% remote work
• Work with an experienced team of developers
• Continuous development of your hard and soft skills
• Long-term collaboration on challenging products