Staff / Lead Backend Engineer (Node.js / NestJS/ (AI-first)

Hello,
We are called People More because we treat our employees with respect, but also because the projects we work on are for people and should be easy and pleasant to use. We are technological, but we look at the bigger picture :)
The company is made up of people with a huge client base in the country and abroad, for whom we build projects from scratch (UX, UI, frontend, backend, mobile) or in part. We work directly for our clients and also support our partners in their own solutions. This ensures a wide range of projects and the ability to change! We work with clients all over the world.
For the project that we are working on with our partner, we are looking for Staff / Lead Backend Engineer (Node.js / NestJS/  (AI-first).

Your duties will include: 

• Designing backend architecture for a scalable product
• Developing and maintaining backend services in Node.js / NestJS
• Leading technical and architectural decisions
• Building event-driven systems and queue-based processing
• Ensuring security, observability, and high code quality
• Supporting AI/LLM integrations on the backend side
• Using AI/agentic coding tools in day-to-day development work

Requirements that must be met:

• 7+ years of production backend experience,
• Strong production experience with Node.js / TypeScript and NestJS,
• PostgreSQL: query plans, indexes, transactions, raw SQL when needed, not only ORM,
• Async/event-driven systems: queues, retries, idempotency, job processing,
• Security: OAuth 2.0, RBAC/ABAC, OWASP, audit logs, secrets, permission boundaries,
• Multitenancy / data isolation / RLS-style patterns,
• Writing ADRs and leading architectural decisions,
• Experience with agentic coding, combined with a very strong quality mindset.
• Very good English and Polish

Nice to have:

• Experience building systems at real scale: high traffic, large user base, high availability,
• OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, structured logging, dashboards, alerting,
• Cloud experience (preferably GCP/GKE),
• Stripe / payments,
• Backend-level LLM integrations.

What we offer:

• We are open and honest and we solve problems instead of generating them.
• Maybe it’s obvious, but we really respect our employees and associates. We used to be software developers, too, and we appreciate that job!
• A small team
• An international working environment and international projects
• Private medical care
• Sports card
• Training courses
• Work that is 100% remote (unless you prefer another system)

We have an office in Krakow, but if you like to work remotely, that’s absolutely fine. We are OK with fully remote work. For us, you can be located anywhere. :)

Why it’s a good idea to work with People More?

• If you are not satisfied with your work or your tasks, we’ll find a way out together!
• If you get bored, we will offer you a new product and new, fascinating tasks
• We will work on your brand together: you will get an opportunity to attend conferences, including as a speaker, and we will help you publish in recognized magazines and online
• We will facilitate your access to challenges that are usually difficult to get
• At any time, you can talk directly to the board of People More—we talk your language because the company’s founders are software developers and designers!

What does the recruitment process look like?

• A friendly remote initial interview
• A remote technical talk
• The decision to work together!

140 - 180 zł/h

B2B

Kraków / remote