# Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Node.js, TypeScript, Rust)

- Platform: Mercor
- Pay: $50–$80/hour
- Location: Remote, United States
- Contract: full time
- Fields: Software Engineering & Coding
- Last verified open: 2026-10-30
- Listing on SOJI (apply here): https://hiring.sojistudio.com/jobs/senior-software-engineer-backend-nodejs-typescript-rust

Mercor is placing a senior backend engineer (Node.js, TypeScript, Rust) on an enterprise platform team. Full-time, US only, $50-$80/h.

## About the Role
Mercor is partnering with a large enterprise technology organization to place a senior backend engineer on a platform team behind its customer-facing web and mobile experiences. The team works with Engineering, UX, Product, Business and Analytics, iterates through experimentation, and brings generative AI into production services. This is a full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.

## What You'll Do
- Lead delivery of scoped features with collaborative engineering teams.
- Design, build, test and maintain efficient services in Node.js, TypeScript and Rust across the software lifecycle and CI/CD.
- Build and tune server-to-server integrations and REST and GraphQL API layers for high-traffic applications.
- Integrate AI/ML capabilities and use generative AI tools to boost engineering productivity.
- Contribute to solution design, run code reviews and monitor performance and defects.
- Mentor peers and share knowledge.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering, or a Computer Science bachelor's degree plus 3+ years, on production systems at a high-scale organization.
- Hands-on backend experience with Node.js and TypeScript, and production-level Rust.
- Strong web fundamentals: HTTP semantics, cookies, headers, caching, sessions, service-to-service auth, timeouts and retries.
- Experience with high-traffic systems.

## Compensation & Logistics
- Pay: $50-$80/h.
- Full-time, 40 hours per week, remote.
- Employment is W-2 with Cincinnatus LLC, placed within the enterprise client's engineering organization.
- US only.

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