Lead Backend Engineer (Typescript, Nodejs)

Role overview

At Mindera, we believe that software is built by people, for people, with high-performance systems that impact users worldwide. We are looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to join an agile, collaborative team where your voice matters as much as your code.

You won't just be building backend services; you'll be a technical leader helping us design, develop, and evolve scalable, secure, and resilient backend platforms. Working with modern TypeScript, GraphQL, and AWS cloud technologies, you'll drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and contribute hands-on to the delivery of high-quality distributed systems that power digital experiences at scale.

We value empathy, self-organization, and a positive attitude. If you are approachable, communicate clearly, and believe that team fit is just as important as your technical expertise, you'll feel right at home here.

At Mindera we encourage the use of AI to assist with coding and related tasks. We find a persons skill in engineering and software craft, has a big impact long term successful delivery, with or without AI. Our goal in the interview process is to understand the candidates knowledge and skill with engineering. If you need to, or plan to use AI, please be transparent with us when you're using it, to avoid issues and misunderstandings that can either: impact your chance of securing the role or impact your success at Mindera.

You’ll collaborate across time zones and locations, with occasional travel to Australia (0–15%) depending on project and client needs.

Key responsibilities

- Own the technical direction and evolution of the GraphQL-based omnichannel API platform

- Define and enforce API standards, schema governance, and engineering best practices in a Node.js/TypeScript environment

- Define and manage cloud resources using AWS CDK (TypeScript), ensuring infrastructure is versioned and scalable

- Remain hands-on, contributing to key parts of the codebase and infrastructure-as-code

- Lead technical design discussions and guide solution approaches across teams

- Manage technical risks, dependencies, and non-functional requirements such as performance, scalability, and security

- Mentor and support engineers, helping grow capability within the team

- Collaborate effectively with hybrid teams across Vietnam and Australia

Requirements

- Extensive experience designing and delivering large-scale backend or API platforms

- Expert proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript, with a deep understanding of asynchronous programming and type safety

- Advanced proficiency in AWS CDK; ability to define and manage complex infrastructure (ECS, Fargate, VPC, ALB) via code

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably on AWS (CodeBuild, CodePipeline)

- Strong background in backend engineering and distributed system design - Experience acting as a technical lead or engineering lead on complex platforms

- Ability to balance hands-on delivery with longer-term architectural thinking

- Strong communication skills, able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

- Experience delivering eCommerce or omnichannel retail platforms at scale

- Experience working in enterprise or highly integrated environments

- Exposure to modern DevOps practices

Benefits

The Things We Really Care About:

• Comprehensive Health Insurance – prioritizing your well-being.
• Flexible working hours along with a generous holiday policy.
• Profit-sharing opportunities available for all team members.
• Annual company retreats, sports activities, and interest groups to encourage team bonding and enjoyment!
• Training & Conferences – design your own personal development journey.
• Childcare support through vouchers to assist families.
• Most importantly, you will be part of a collaborative, politics-free team where everyone enjoys ownership and autonomy.

Compensation

• The maximum monthly gross salary for this position is 135 million VND. Final offers will be based on experience and alignment with the role's requirements.

We take pride in nurturing an inclusive, streamlined, and self-managed work environment that promotes freedom, accountability, and ongoing feedback.

Most of all you get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient, and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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With offices located across Portugal, United Kingdom, United States, India, Romania, Brazil, Morocco, Spain, Australia, Vietnam join us as we expand and influence the future of software engineering worldwide.