Platform Engineer (Backend)

About Field Nation

Field Nation is a leading services marketplace and SaaS platform connecting companies with a vast network of independent contractors. We empower businesses to scale their field service operations efficiently and provide flexible work opportunities for skilled professionals. Our mission is to transform how work gets done, one project at a time.

The Engineering Enablement Team

The Engineering Enablement team is a crucial part of our engineering organization. We are dedicated to empowering our development teams by providing the tools, infrastructure, and processes that enable them to build, deploy, and operate high-quality software efficiently and reliably. We focus on improving developer experience, automating repetitive tasks, and ensuring our platform is scalable, secure, and performant.

Your Role

We’re looking for a talented Backend Software Engineer to join our dynamic team in Dhaka. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the server-side logic of our high-traffic platform. You will tackle exciting challenges in a collaborative, agile environment, working on services that are critical to the Field Nation marketplace and have a direct impact on our users.

What you’ll do

• Build & Enhance APIs: Design, develop, and maintain clean, scalable, and secure RESTful APIs using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Develop Core Services: Write high-quality, testable, and efficient code for the microservices that power our platform.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with software developers, QAEs and Security Engineers to deliver secured and seamless developer experience.
• Database Management: Interact with and optimize our databases (both SQL and NoSQL) to ensure high performance and data integrity.
• Maintain & Improve: Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing CI/CD pipelines and standard workflows.
• Uphold Best Practices: Participate in code reviews and contribute to our team’s culture of quality and continuous improvement.

What you’ll need

Education: A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) or a related field.

Experience: A minimum of 2-3 years of professional experience in backend software development. Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance backend services and APIs.

Core Technical Skills: Strong proficiency and hands-on experience with TypeScript and JavaScript, particularly in a backend context with Node.js.

Additional Qualifications: Experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS (e.g., Lambda, S3, EC2, DynamoDB). Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible). Exposure to monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack). Knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases.