APIs and services
REST and GraphQL services with versioning, rate limiting and authentication designed in rather than bolted on afterwards.
APIs and services
Hire Node.js Developers
Back-end engineers who build the services your product runs on. APIs that hold up under load, integrations that fail safely, and jobs that finish even when a third party does not.
What our Node.js Developers do
When teams hire Node.js developers the brief is usually “build the API”. The part that decides whether it was money well spent is what happens when something downstream is slow, or returns a shape nobody expected, or goes away entirely for ninety seconds.
An API that works on a good day is straightforward. One that fails safely, retries what is worth retrying, and does not lose an order because a payment provider timed out is a different level of care, and it is what we screen for.
Engineers work inside your repository and your review process, so what they build is maintainable by your team rather than only by ours. If the work is really full stack, one engineer covering both ends is often better value than two specialists on a small team.
What they build
The work this role actually does here, on client products that are live.
Real-time features
Chat, notifications, live dashboards and collaborative editing over WebSockets, including the reconnection handling most implementations skip.
Integration layers
Payment gateways, CRMs, ERPs and logistics providers, with retries, idempotency keys and a queue behind them so one slow partner does not take your checkout down.
Background processing
Queues, scheduled jobs and data pipelines. The work that has to keep running when nobody is watching, with alerting that says which job failed and why.
What they know
Named rather than implied, so you can check it against your own job description before we talk.
Runtime
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Express
- NestJS
- Fastify
Data
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Prisma and TypeORM
Async
- BullMQ
- RabbitMQ
- Kafka
- Socket.IO
- AWS SQS
Operations
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- OpenAPI
- Jest and Supertest
- OpenTelemetry
Is this the right way to buy?
Hire this way when
- You have a front-end team and no back end behind it
- An integration keeps failing and nobody owns it
- A feature needs real-time behaviour your current stack was not built for
- A monolith needs specific pieces pulled out without stopping the product
Look elsewhere when
- The workload is heavy data processing or modelling, where Python fits better
- You need someone who also owns the interface, which is a full stack hire
- The requirement is a fixed, defined API you want delivered and handed over
- You have no staging environment, because then nothing can be tested safely
How hiring runs
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Tell us the gap
What the team is building, what is missing, and how long you expect to need it. A rough answer is enough to start.
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Profiles within a week
You get a shortlist of engineers who are actually free, with the work they have shipped here. Not a database of people we would have to recruit first.
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You interview them
Technical interview, pair programming, take-home, whatever your normal process is. You decide, not us. Nobody joins your team without your yes.
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They start inside your process
Your repository, your board, your standups, your review standards. We do not run a parallel process alongside yours.
Agreed before anyone starts
Written into the contract rather than promised on a call. These are the terms people forget to ask about until they need them.
You interview and approve every engineer before they start
One month notice either way, so neither side is trapped
A replacement at our cost if someone is not working out in the first month
Code, accounts and credentials are yours from the first commit
An NDA before any of your systems are discussed, not after
No recruitment fee if you later hire someone permanently
Would rather we delivered it? See Web Application Development
Questions we get asked
Node or something else?
Node suits IO-heavy work: many concurrent connections, lots of waiting on other services. For heavy computation or data science we would tell you to use Python instead, even though it means a different hire.
Do they write tests?
Yes, alongside the code rather than promised for later. On an API that means contract tests against the schema, not just unit tests of functions nobody calls directly.
Can they work with our existing database?
Yes. Working with a schema someone else designed is normal. If we think a change is needed you get the reasoning and the migration plan, not a rewrite request.
Who owns the code?
You do, from the first commit. It is in your repository under your organisation.
Tell us what your team is missing.
Send the role, the stack and how long you expect to need it. You get profiles of engineers who are actually free, not a sales call.