Backend Engineer Node.js to Waitwhile

About the Position

Backend Engineer Node.js to Waitwhile

Here at Waitwhile we're on a mission to eliminate the 1 trillion hours people spend waiting in lines every year. Our platform combines virtual waitlists, scheduling, real-time updates, messaging, and analytics to make access to places, services, and events seamless, online or in person. Trusted by 10,000+ companies, Waitwhile has already helped over 150 million people enjoy a radically better waiting experience. Our clients include IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Costco, Delta Airlines, and thousands more. We’re just getting started, and we need your help.

Responsibilities

As a member of our Service Intelligence team, you’ll focus on the backend systems, infrastructure, and data foundations that power Waitwhile at enterprise scale and enable our clients to access valuable insights on their daily operations. You’ll work closely with our VP of Engineering and our cross-functional engineering teams, contributing to scalable, high-impact features that improve both our platform and user experience.

This is also where we’re building the foundation for our AI initiatives, working with rich operational data to unlock smarter insights around things like wait times, staffing, and service performance.

• Full engineering lifecycle including technical design, implementation, automated testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Drive improvements to engineering best practices, tooling, and code quality.
• Scalability, reliability, observability, and compliance across services and internal platforms.
• Design, implement, and evolve APIs, workflows, and backend services that support core product functionality.
• Improve monitoring, logging, deployment systems, and operational tooling to support long-term platform health.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience building web applications.
• Strong experience with Node.js and designing scalable backend architectures.
• Cloud hosting and operations.
• Experience selecting and operating the right data storage solutions to ensure application responsiveness and scalability.
• Comfort in collaborating across the stack to support complete product experiences.
• Great communication skills, comfortable explaining complex concepts to cross-functional teams.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Nice to Have

• Previously worked at a startup or on a SaaS product.
• Experience with infrastructure as code.
• Direct experience with Firebase, Firestore, and/or BigQuery.
• Experience with monitoring, reliability engineering, and operational best practices.
• Security-minded approach to platform development.

We Offer

We want Waitwhile to be an incredible place to work. We offer great benefits and perks, flexible working hours and lots of interesting challenges. We believe in making work fun and rewarding and care about your development and are committed to your success. Join Waitwhile at this exciting stage and help shape both our future and your own.

Waitwhile has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture-we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. We aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, what are you waiting for? Apply for this job!

About the Company

Ants

Our mission is to solve the prevailing shortage of IT-competence and thereby, play a central role within the increasing need of recruiting programmers and developers.

In order to do that, our strategy is to specialize in headhunting and roles that are difficult to recruit. This has led us to develop models for how to attract and engage the right candidates. With an agile approach, solid networks and a close cooperation with our customers, we are the market leaders within recruiting tech competence and provides our customers the conditions to continue growing.

Founded in 2008, Ants has over 50+ co-workers.