Senior JavaScript Engineer

About us 

Intellum is the leader in corporate education technology and powers the largest, most successful customer, partner, and employee learning programs in the world. Large brands and fast-moving companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Walmart, Xero, Atlassian, Mailchimp, Airbnb, Stripe, and TikTok rely on Intellum to engage and educate the audiences they touch. 

We have always been a “remote first” company and are proud to have team members located all over the world. We value Curiosity, Creativity, Perseverance, and Kindness and strive to demonstrate these core values every day. Our culture is very important to us. We invest in our people in fun and exciting ways, including personal development budgets and an annual all-company retreat that is focused less on work and more on human connections. We are in growth mode, and our “smart growth” approach ensures that we will continue to scale our company effectively. 

Summary

We are on the lookout for a talented Senior JavaScript Engineer to take a leading role in our backend development efforts using Node.js. This is a fantastic opportunity to be at the forefront of our ambitious replatforming initiative, which aims to modernize our architecture and integrate cutting-edge technologies and methodologies. You will play a crucial role in shaping our future, designing, building, and maintaining robust APIs that ensure scalability, performance, and security.

While your primary focus will be on backend engineering, having some familiarity with React for front-end tasks will be beneficial. If you are someone who thrives in a dynamic environment and is passionate about leveraging modern development practices to make a significant impact, we would love to hear from you. We value clear communication and a commitment to quality, and we look forward to seeing how your experience with TypeScript and your proactive approach to testing and reliability can contribute to our team's success.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable back-end services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript

• Architect, implement, and optimize RESTful APIs

• Ensure high code quality through unit testing, integration testing, and automated test coverage

• Work closely with the QA team to document requirements, ensure testability, and implement test-driven development where applicable

• Support production availability by troubleshooting issues, and proactively improving system resilience

• Collaborate with the Product team to break down features into well-defined tasks, provide technical feedback, and align development with business goals

• Optimize performance and scalability of back-end services

• Implement best practices for security, authentication, and authorization

• Collaborate in the replatforming effort, contributing to architectural decisions and modernization strategies

• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, logging, and monitoring for backend services

• Proactively communicate with cross-functional teams, provide constructive feedback, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement

• Contribute to team goals by consistently delivering on projects that have high complexity and critical business impact

• Write well-crafted, high-quality, and easy-to-maintain code

• Write unit and automated tests for new features

• Proactively contributes to the improvement of other engineers in the company through mentoring and providing constructive, candid feedback

• Proactively gives technical and strategic feedback on projects relevant to their expertise that leads to better outcomes

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a JavaScript/Node.js developer

• Strong proficiency in Node.js, with hands-on experience in building scalable backend services

• Experience with TypeScript in production environments

• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs

• Strong focus on unit testing, integration testing, and working with QA to ensure high test coverage

• Experience with MongoDB and familiarity with databases paradigms (SQL or NoSQL)

• Understanding of authentication mechanisms (OAuth, JWT, session-based authentication)

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerization tools is a plus

• Exposure to React.js and ability to collaborate with front-end engineers

• Experience with debugging, monitoring, and supporting production applications

• Knowledge of scalable architecture, caching strategies, and performance optimization

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment

• Proactive mindset, with the ability to share feedback, raise concerns, and suggest improvements

What we offer

• A fully remote work environment with a collaborative and inclusive culture

• Opportunities to work on cutting-edge technologies and contribute to a major replatforming initiative

• Competitive salary and benefits

• A culture that values proactive communication, ownership, and continuous learning

BENEFITS

• Medical - 100% of employee premiums for selected individual plans
• Dental - 100% of employee premiums covered
• Vision - 100% of employee premiums covered
• $3,000 annual educational funds (“Boost Budget”)
• LinkedIn Learning
• 401(k) plus matching (US Based Only)
• Unlimited PTO
• Calm subscription
• Annual Company Retreat

Intellum is an equal-opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that celebrates diversity in people, perspectives, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We encourage you to apply for an open position and if you have questions about whether or not your job experience and skill set meet the requirements for a specific role, reach out to us directly at careers@intellum.com. 

If you are an individual applying from CA, NY, CO, CT, MD, NV, or RI, please reach out to careers@intellum.com to inquire about specific pay ranges.