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Staff/Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js)

Mimica · UK, Netherlands · posted Jul 29, 2026

senior

What this role actually asks for

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Must have

  • 8+ years experience in software engineering
  • Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Experience with Docker and K8s
  • Practical experience designing APIs and managing databases
  • Firm grasp of distributed systems concepts
  • Commitment to high engineering standards
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

Nice to have

  • Experience owning projects end-to-end
  • Experience in a high-impact startup/scale-up environment
  • Active interest in AI or automation

Tools and technologies

Node.jsMERN stackJavaScriptTypeScriptDockerK8sPostgreSQLMongoDB

The full posting

What we are building

Mimica's mission is to empower enterprises, teams, and individuals to reclaim their most precious resource — time and work more efficiently, with greater purpose and impact. Our AI-powered task mining observes employee actions across the desktop and categorizes them into detailed process maps. Mimica’s process intelligence highlights inefficiencies, prioritizes improvements based on ROI, recommends the optimal technology for automation (RPA, intelligent document processing, GenAI), and provides a blueprint for building new automations and transforming work. Visit our Career Page to learn more.

Our approach to engineering

  • We prioritize customer needs first
  • We work in small, project-based teams
  • We have flexibility in terms of the problems we work on
  • We own the full lifecycle of our projects
  • We avoid silos and encourage taking up tasks in new areas
  • We balance quality and velocity
  • We have a shared responsibility for our production code
  • We each set our own routine to maximize our productivity

Your mission

In this role, your mission will be to enhance and scale the backend systems powering the Mimica platform ( MERN stack). This means designing and implementing a scalable architecture, developing and optimizing backend services and APIs, improving the performance and reliability of existing components, and taking operational responsibility for what you build.

As a member of our early engineering team, you‘ll have the opportunity to shape our technical direction, processes and culture.

Part of your day-to-day

  • Contributing to architectural decisions and collaborating across teams to identify and implement product improvements.
  • Developing and optimizing a real-time

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