Backend Engineer

Remote / Full-time

Role Summary

We’re building a high-load private social platform where quality, performance, and stability matter as much as product taste. You’ll work on the core backend powering dating, networking, subscriptions, moderation, and real-time interactions — with real users, real scale, and zero room for sloppy engineering.

What you will do

• Design and develop core business logic and backend services
• Work with databases at scale (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse)
• Integrate third-party services and internal systems
• Improve performance, stability, and system scalability under high load
• Write and maintain tests to ensure correctness and reliability
• Set up and maintain servers, cloud infrastructure, and configuration management
• Build observability: logs, metrics, monitoring, error tracking
• Coordinate backend releases and deployments
• Implement and maintain security best practices across the stack

Tech stack

• JavaScript
• NodeJS
• PostgreSQL, Redis
• BullMQ
• Impress

What we expect

• Strong backend experience with JavaScript / Node.js
• Deep understanding of Linux
• Solid knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, and networking fundamentals
• Experience designing and operating complex distributed systems
• Excellent SQL skills, including query optimization and indexing
• Deep understanding of PostgreSQL architecture
• Experience with Redis, queues (BullMQ), background jobs
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Kafka + Debezium
• Ability to think in systems, not just features

Nice to have

• Familiarity with the Metarhia technology stack
• Experience with Centrifugal or real-time systems
• Experience in high-load consumer products (social, marketplace, fintech, etc.)

Why 88date

• Real product with real users, not experiments
• High standards, small team, real ownership
• Focus on quality, privacy, and long-term architecture
• Opportunity to shape the technical foundation of a growing private social club