Backend Engineer (TypeScript, GCP) — Reliable Data Pipelines & APIs
We’re building a backend system that ingests, processes, and serves curated product data via stable APIs. We’re looking for a senior backend engineer to build a reliable, typed, production-grade backend on GCP. The system ingests flaky upstream data daily, normalizes it into clean canonical records, and exposes versioned APIs. Reliability, idempotency, and clear failure handling are non-negotiable. Tech (fixed) • TypeScript (strict) • GCP: Cloud Run, Cloud Tasks, Cloud SQL (Postgres) • Prisma, Zod • Fastify or NestJS (OpenAPI) • Cloud Storage, Cloud Logging You’ll do • Build idempotent background workers with retries + backoff • Normalize messy upstream data into clean, typed schemas • Expose versioned, documented REST APIs • Make failures obvious, traceable, and re-processable You should have • Strong TypeScript + GCP production experience • Experience with queues / background jobs (Cloud Tasks, SQS, etc.) • Built systems that survive unreliable upstream APIs • Pragmatic mindset: use managed services, avoid over-customization Not a fit if you • Prefer custom frameworks over managed infrastructure • Ship untyped pipelines or silent failures Apply tot his job