Backend Engineer (node.js)

About Ludeo

Ludeo is a hyper-growth startup in the gaming industry that is revolutionizing the way players discover and engage with games. For the first time, gamers can share their most thrilling gameplay moments with everyone and allow others to PLAY them, not just watch them as video clips.

Ludeo’s vision is to become the world’s first playable social media platform for gamers, enabling seamless discovery and interaction with gaming content.

About the Role

We are looking for a talented Backend Developer to join our growing team and take part in the architecture and scaling of our real-time, high-performance platform. You will be responsible for designing and implementing critical backend systems that support millions of users while ensuring ultra-low latency, high availability, and seamless performance.

This is a high-impact role where you'll work on cutting-edge backend solutions for cloud-scale gaming infrastructure.

What You'll Do

Design and develop highly scalable, distributed backend services to support real-time gaming interactions.
Optimize performance and reduce latency in microservices-based architectures handling millions of concurrent users.
Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and efficient resource utilization in a cloud-based environment.
Develop and manage robust APIs, databases, and caching layers to efficiently handle gaming sessions.
Work in an agile, fast-paced environment, taking ownership of core backend services.

Requirements:

3+ years of experience developing large-scale backend systems in Node.js & TypeScript with microservices.
Experience in performance optimization and real-time event-driven architectures.
Strong background in distributed systems, caching strategies, and concurrency handling.
Hands-on experience designing and optimizing NoSQL databases for high-scale workloads.
Experience with message queues, event streaming, and real-time data processing (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).

Nice to have

Familiarity with NestJS
Experience in FE development, preferably using React