Backend Engineer (TypeScript)
Role Overview
Build APIs and services behind Aleroy’s AI platform, primarily using TypeScript and Node.js.
Work on accounts, organizations, access management, API keys, usage, and billing.
Collaborate with product, frontend, and infrastructure engineers to take features from requirements to production.
Experience with Go is strongly encouraged; previous AI or LLM inference experience is welcome but not required.
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About Aleroy
Aleroy is building a unified platform for high-performance AI inference, helping companies deploy and run AI models at scale.
The platform provides access to ready-to-use and custom models across cloud infrastructure, dedicated capacity, and customers’ own hardware.
The company focuses on reliable, scalable AI infrastructure and works in small, collaborative teams.
About the role
Build APIs and services behind Aleroy’s AI platform, primarily using TypeScript and Node.js.
Work on accounts, organizations, access management, API keys, usage, and billing.
Collaborate with product, frontend, and infrastructure engineers to take features from requirements to production.
Experience with Go is strongly encouraged; previous AI or LLM inference experience is welcome but not required.
Backend development
- Build and maintain backend services and REST APIs using TypeScript and Node.js.
- Implement authentication, permissions, organizations, projects, and API key management.
- Define API contracts with frontend engineers and handle loading, errors, and edge cases.
- Deliver features through implementation, testing, release, and follow-up improvements.
Data and integrations
- Design PostgreSQL schemas, write migrations, and improve queries.
- Integrate usage reporting, billing, and external services.
- Build background jobs and safely handle retries, duplicate events, and failed requests.
- Use caching and queues where they solve a concrete problem.
Reliability and quality
- Write automated tests for important workflows and failure cases.
- Diagnose issues using logs and metrics, and fix their underlying causes.
- Keep code readable, document key decisions, and contribute to code reviews.
- Work with infrastructure and inference engineers to connect product services with model-serving systems.
About you
- At least 3 years of professional backend development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript and Node.js, and experience designing, building, and maintaining REST APIs.
- Good working knowledge of PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexes, and transactions.
- Understand asynchronous programming, error handling, and external API integrations.
- Have experience implementing authentication and authorization and securely handling user data and credentials.
- Can write useful automated tests, troubleshoot production issues, communicate clearly, and turn product requirements into working backend features.
Nice to have
- Go experience is strongly preferred, including the ability to read, maintain, or build services in Go.
- Redis, message queues, or background workers; payments, usage-based billing, or webhook integrations.
- Docker and CI/CD workflows; SaaS products or developer-facing APIs.
- AI APIs, streaming responses, or long-running requests.
What Aleroy offers
- Ownership of meaningful backend features and a voice in technical decisions.
- Close collaboration with product and engineering in a small team with short decision cycles.
- Opportunity to build experience in AI products and infrastructure.
- Competitive compensation and performance incentives, 24 paid vacation days plus public holidays, and medical insurance.
- An office at Yas Creative Hub for UAE-based work.
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