Senior Backend Engineer (NestJS / AWS)

About EequEequ is a marketplace and booking platform for learning experiences outside traditional schools and universities. Providers use Eequ to list activities, take bookings and payments, and manage their programmes.We are the market-leading supplier to local authorities in the UK for council-funded programmes and we also serve thousands of independent providers. Our platform handles bookings, payments, and data at scale.Our vision is to build the infrastructure for a more decentralised model of education, where anyone can create, share, and find learning experiences; from forest school leaders to sports coaches and artists.We are a product-led company, and engineering sits at the heart of everything we do. Our product is the company, and its quality defines our reputation, reliability, and growth. Because of this, our engineers, and the decisions they make, carry the greatest weight in shaping our direction and our future.Role summaryWe are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer with strong experience in Node.js / NestJS and AWS, who will:Own day-to-day deployments of our backend services.Lead monitoring and incident response for production systems.Take primary ownership of our AWS infrastructure, using infrastructure as code.Design and implement backend features for a high-traffic, transactional booking platform.Raise the standard of engineering practice across the team through example, review, and coaching.This is a high-seniority individual contributor role. You will need experience across the end-to-end software development lifecycle. You will be hands-on, responsible for both building and deploying the systems you work on.Your core responsibilitiesYou will have clear ownership in four main areas:1️⃣ Backend systemsDesign, build, and maintain backend services in NestJS / TypeScript.Implement features that support bookings, payments, reporting, and data exports.Maintain and improve our database schema and query patterns in MySQL.Ensure code is reliable, testable, and maintainable.2️⃣ Deployments and release processOwn the deployment pipeline for backend services, from build to production.Improve the safety and speed of deployments (for example blue-green or zero-downtime deployments).Reduce manual steps and failure points in the release process.Ensure that other backend engineers can deploy confidently using the tools and processes you establish.3️⃣ Infrastructure and monitoringTake primary responsibility for our AWS-based infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch and related services).Manage resources using infrastructure as code tools.Maintain and improve observability: logging, metrics, alerts, and dashboards.Lead incident response when production issues occur and drive follow-up improvements.4️⃣ Technical direction and coachingMake and communicate architectural choices for backend and infrastructure.Review code from other backend engineers and give clear, constructive feedback.Help the team adopt better patterns in testing, performance, security, and reliability.Share knowledge so that deployment and operational capability is spread across the team, not held by one person.

Created: 2025-12-14