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# NodeJS Engineer / FinTech Startup

- **Company:** Motion Recruitment
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, Profiling, Serialization, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Protocol Buffers, Monitoring of Systems, JSON, PostgreSQL, Load Testing, Node.Js, Query Optimization, Datadog, Database Optimization, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Microservices
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2e013d3cac455825

## About the Role

* 2+ years of professional Node.JS development experience
 * Solid understanding of
 + Event loop & async architecture
 + Performance bottlenecks in Node.js
 * Experience working with large datasets or high-throughput systems
 * PostgreSQL knowledge:
 + Query optimization
 + Indexing strategies
 + Handling large writes
 * Experience debugging production issues

Desired Skills & Experience

 * Experience with
 + Performance profiling (CPU/memory)
 + Load testing techniques
 + Distributed systems or microservices
 * Understanding of:
 + Serialization formats (JSON, protobuf)
 + Data pipeline design
 * Familiarity with:
 + Terraform
 + Monitoring tools (Datadog, CloudWatch)
 + Blue-green or zero-downtime deployments



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