Backend Engineer

About the team

What you will do:

• Work on services from development through to deployment and running them in production.
• Build and maintain backend services, mainly using TypeScript, Node.js and NestJS.
• Help improve our GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including build, test, security and deployment.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm to deploy and troubleshoot our services.
• Improve developer tooling and workflows, particularly where we can remove manual work or make things simpler.
• Help improve observability, monitoring and debugging across our services.
• Work alongside DevOps on infrastructure and automation where needed, including things like Terraform and Azure.
• Generally be comfortable working across backend development, CI/CD and the platform rather than focusing only on application code.

Experience:

• Strong backend development experience, ideally TypeScript/Node.js/NestJS.
• Good CI/CD experience, ideally GitLab CI.
• Good experience with Docker and some practical Kubernetes experience.
• Experience deploying and troubleshooting services, not just developing them locally.
• A good understanding of testing, debugging, logging and monitoring.
• Comfortable working across application and infrastructure/deployment areas.
• Helm, Terraform and Azure/AKS experience would be useful, but I wouldn't make all of these hard requirements.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, APIs and asynchronous/messaging systems would also be useful given the services we work with.

Nice to have:

• Experience creating agentic development workflows or writing and maintaining AI skills.
• npm workspaces / shared-package build systems.
• Experience supporting SaaS platforms with strict data-privacy requirements (enterprise/multinational customers).
• We favor paved paths and sensible defaults over teams maintaining highly custom setups.
• Simplicitiy - the art of maximising the amount of work not done - is essential.
• Developers work end-to-end to solve customer problems, and our tooling encourages end-to-end workflows over platform components.
• Life at PTC is about more than working with today’s most cutting-edge technologies to transform the physical world. It’s about showing up as you are and working alongside some of today’s most talented industry leaders to transform the world around you.
• If you share our passion for problem-solving through innovation, you’ll likely become just as passionate about the PTC experience as we are. Are you ready to explore your next career move with us?
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