Node.js & NestJS API engineers
Typed modules, queues, and service boundaries, not a single Express file that grew into production.
Node.js · NestJS · Python
Backend developers the product can actually trust
Your API is where uptime, data, and money meet. iQud backend engineers ship Node.js, NestJS, Python, and Rails services with contract discipline, observable operations, and data layers treated as product work, not a black box behind the UI.
- Node.js, NestJS & Python
- APIs, auth, and integrations
- Postgres-backed data layers
- First PR in about a week
Backend delivery signals
- 5 dTypical time to first pull request
- 99.9Uptime target we design services toward
- RESTContract-first APIs, not ad-hoc endpoints
- 2 wkSprint cadence with service review
The backend seats we actually staff
“Backend” is not one job. We match on the specialization your product needs, the same stacks behind iQud’s live technology pages.
01 02 Python service specialists
Product APIs, workers, and data-adjacent services tied to analytics and automation, not notebooks left in a repo.
03 Rails product backends
Admin systems, CRUD-heavy platforms, and maintainable domain models when Rails is already how you ship.
04 Auth, integrations, and data layers
Sessions, tokens, third-party APIs, and Postgres schemas designed so the next feature does not fight the last one.
05 Event-driven and service work
Queues, retries, and idempotent consumers when a single request-response path is no longer enough.
06 Contract-first delivery
OpenAPI, versioning, and breaking-change discipline so frontend and mobile teams can move without guessing.
Tools they open on day one
Every tile is a live iQud technology page. We will not staff a backend stack we do not already ship.
Back End
From intro call to a merged PR
A backend hire should be shipping services in your repo, not sitting in a two-month onboarding theatre.
1 Map the service gap
Stack, data stores, seniority, overlap hours, and what “done in 30 days” looks like on the API and jobs.
2 Shortlist real engineers
We match available backend specialists to your brief and share relevant service and data-layer work.
3 You interview
Meet the human who will join standup. Validate API craft, data modeling, and how they talk through failure modes.
4 First sprint in your tools
Repo access, environments, and a first pull request, typically inside a week once you say go.
Start with one seat. Grow if the backlog says so.
Most clients embed a single backend engineer first. A pod or a rewrite only when the service work actually needs it.
One embedded engineer
A Node.js, NestJS, or Python specialist joins your squad, takes direction from your lead, and works in your rituals.
Best forClosing an API velocity gap without a new vendor process
Dedicated backend seat
A stable owner for a service area (auth, billing, integrations, or a bounded context) with senior review on the sprint.
Best forA product area that needs a named service owner
Scoped backend initiative
A defined slice: API rebuild, queue rollout, or a data-layer cutover with contracts already in motion.
Best forA milestone you can point at, not an open-ended bench
Backend hiring rates, in writing
Two ways to staff a Node.js / NestJS / Python engineer. Hourly for spikes and defined tickets. A dedicated monthly seat when you want someone in your standup every day, at a lower effective rate than running the clock.
Hire by the hour
$20/ hour
Flexible backend capacity for API spikes, reviews, and scoped tickets. You only pay for hours worked.
- Same service engineers as a monthly seat
- Best for overflow, an integration, or a single bounded context
- Start fast, pause when the spike is done
- Billed against actual hours, not a retainer
Best value
Hire for a month
$2,000/ month
A named backend engineer on your sprint, about 160 hours of dedicated service capacity, with senior review in the cadence.
A full-time month at $20 is $3,200. This seat is $2,000.
- Named engineer in your repo, environments, and standup
- API, data-layer, and integration work included
- Month-to-month. No annual lock-in.
- Lower cost than the same hours billed at $20
Rates are for dedicated backend engineers (Node.js, NestJS, Python, Rails). Seniority mix and overlap hours are confirmed on the intro call. We will not quote a stack we do not already ship.
Why product teams staff backend here
A mediocre backend developer produces an endpoint that works on their laptop. These engineers produce services that survive real traffic, real data, and your next quarter of features.
Specialists, not “full-stack who can write a route”
They live in the service layer: transactions, retries, auth, and why last week’s p95 jumped after a “small” schema change.
Your repo, your cloud, your hours
GIFT City overlap with Europe and the US. Architecture reviews happen live when your leads are online.
Senior eyes on the sprint
Mid-level speed without unsupervised data-layer debt. Review is part of the engagement, not an extra SKU.
Ten clients a quarter, on purpose
We do not run a revolving bench. Capacity is limited so the engineer you interview is the one in standup.
Backend hiring questions
Start with one. Most clients embed a single senior or mid-level backend engineer, then add a pair if the service backlog justifies it.
Node.js, NestJS, Python, Ruby on Rails, and PostgreSQL. TypeScript is standard on Node seats. We will not staff a backend stack we do not already deliver.
After we map the role and you approve the hire, first pull requests typically land within a week, faster when the repo and environments are ready.
Yes. GitHub, Jira, your cloud, your standups. We do not invent a parallel process unless you ask for one.
We deliver Java/Spring and Go on selected engagements. If that is the seat you need, say so on the intro call. We will only shortlist engineers on stacks we already ship.
Hourly ($20) is for spikes and defined tickets. You pay only for hours worked. The monthly seat ($2,000) is a named backend engineer on your sprint, about 160 hours of dedicated capacity. The same month billed hourly would be $3,200. Seniority and overlap hours are confirmed on the intro call.
Give the product a backend it can grow with
Tell us the stack, the data stores, and the first service you want shipped. We’ll come back with a named profile, a start window, and a two-week plan.