Senior Node.js Developer - Fintech Solution
We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Developer (Node.js) to join our development team in Lisbon. You’ll help build and scale a next-generation payments integration platform that connects businesses with multiple financial service providers through secure, high-performance APIs. Your Mission: Design and implement robust solutions that power our payments platform, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability. You will contribute to building seamless integrations with banks and payment providers while actively participating in the evolution of a cutting-edge fintech product.
- Design, implement, and optimize backend-heavy solutions for our proprietary payments platform
- Develop and maintain complex integrations with banks, PSPs, and other third-party providers
- Actively participate in the full feature lifecycle, from concept and design to implementation and release
- Contribute to the continuous evolution of our fintech payments solution, ensuring adaptability to market needs
- Collaborate within agile development cycles (Scrum), including grooming, sprint planning, and bi-weekly releases
- Identify opportunities to improve technical approaches, performance, and development processes
- Work closely with design, product, and business teams to align features with user and business needs
- 5+ years of professional experience in web development
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with Node.js
- Solid experience with Next.js, Nest.js, Apollo, and Material UI
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript
- Experience with high-load SQL and/or NoSQL databases
- Hands-on experience with REST, GraphQL, and WebSockets
- Knowledge of TDD and experience writing automated tests
- Understanding of microservice architecture principles
- Proficiency with Git workflows
- Hands-on experience with RabbitMQ and Redis
- Experience with MongoDB and MySQL
- Advanced English skills (written and spoken)
- Learning and development opportunities and interesting, challenging tasks.
- Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for up to 2 weeks, and visa relocation support for our employees and their family members).
- Opportunity to develop language skills, with partial compensation for the cost of English and Portuguese language classes (for localization purposes).
- Partial compensation for tennis and padel lessons.
- Urban Sport membership benefit (the most diverse sports and wellness offering in Europe, with more than 50+ activities).
- Private medical coverage, including inpatient, outpatient, dental care, annual check-ups, and maternity support.
- Time for proper rest, with 24 non-business days per year and an additional 6 paid sick days.
- Transport compensation - 200 euros net per month.
- Competitive remuneration level with annual review.
- Teambuilding activities.
BrainRocket is a software development and design company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus. It builds end-to-end technology products across industries including iGaming, fintech and marketing, covering platform development, payments, CRM, data and AI. The company employs more than 1,300 people, with additional offices in Malta, Poland, Portugal and Serbia, and has delivered over 100 products across 20 markets. BrainRocket positions itself as a full-cycle technology partner engineering software built for scale and performance.
