Node.js Backend Engineer — Full-Time

Schedule: flexible within 09:00–19:00 (core overlap preferred in CET)
Start: November
Duration: Long-term cooperation

About the Product

Connact is a German white-label community platform that builds custom iOS/Android + Web apps for associations, clubs, unions, and enterprises. It centralizes communication and engagement with features like news feeds, events, group chats, DMs, documents, member directory & map, CRM/email integrations, and push notifications—positioned as GDPR-compliant and meant to replace scattered channels (mail, socials, WhatsApp).

About the Role

We’re hiring a Node.js Backend Engineer to ship new features, refactor critical paths for performance/reliability, fixing bugs.

Our Stack (from the codebase)

• Runtime/Frameworks: Node.js, Express, NestJS
• DB/Cache/Queue: MongoDB (Mongoose), Redis, BullMQ
• Payments: Stripe, iOS/Android payments
• Admin & Docs: AdminJS, Swagger
• Localization & Feeds: i18next
• Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki

MUST (hard requirements)

• 3+ years of production expirience with Node.js/Express. Typescript.
• Strong MongoDB/Mongoose experience (indexes, aggregation, migrations).
• Expirience working with BullMQ or similar.
• Ukrainian: Fluent, English: B1 or higher.
• Docker (containerizing services, local dev).

Nice to Have

• React basics (useful for AdminJS customizations).
• Monitoring expirience(Grafana dashboards; Prometheus metrics; Loki logging).
• Stripe or other payment integrations; Apple receipt verification etc.
• WebSockets.
• AWS S3 expirience.

How to Apply

Send a short note with:

• Small cover letter, including you start date
• CV
• Your salary expectations
• Please include the phrase “[attentiv]” in your cover letter. It proves you actually read the post (and that you’re the kind of dev who reads docs before shipping )