A senior backend role where engineers own services end-to-end, on a product with real load and real data. Strongest on Node.js, TypeScript and Golang (Go) with PostgreSQL and Kafka, and on identity, migrations and data-layer performance. Fintech, payments and logistics are the domains I know best. Based in Tbilisi, open to remote work or relocation to Canada, Netherlands, Germany, UK or US.

Arman Arutiunian
@a-arutiunian
Senior Backend Engineer, 5 years in Node.js/TypeScript and Go. Microservices, auth/IAM and data-layer work across fintech, payments and logistics.
What I'm looking for
Backend engineer with 5 years in Node.js/TypeScript and Go, working on production systems in fintech, payments, logistics and agritech. Most of my work sits in three areas: microservices and event-driven workflows, authentication and identity, and the data layer.
Most recently I spent a year and a half on an FMCSA-regulated electronic logging platform serving 2,000-3,000 US carriers and around 20,000 drivers, as one of 3 backend engineers owning 10-14 services end-to-end. I migrated 20-25 data domains from Couchbase to CockroachDB on a live platform with no downtime, cutting read/write latency from ~160-250ms to 5-17ms, and replaced Supabase Auth with self-hosted Keycloak in 6-8 weeks, moving ~10,000 accounts into a 4-5 realm multi-tenant identity model and extending Keycloak with custom SPI providers in Java.
Before that I worked on Payme, Uzbekistan's national payment ecosystem, where I extracted 8 services from the monolith into NestJS microservices over JSON-RPC and Kafka under peak platform load of ~8-10k requests/sec, and on Yara's global agritech platform, building a shared identity and multi-region messaging layer reaching 160 countries.
I work in Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, Golang (Go), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CockroachDB, Kafka, Redis, AWS and Docker, usually in small backend teams where one engineer owns a service from schema to production support.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Backend Engineer
ZenaWell
Sep 2026 - Present (1 month)
ZenaWell is an early-stage Medical AI & Health Data Platform focused on bringing fragmented health information — including medical records, laboratory results, medications, and health history — into one connected and structured context.
Backend Engineer
Hora Services SRL
Nov 2024 - Jun 2026 (1 year 7 months)
FMCSA-regulated electronic logging platform serving 2,000-3,000 US carriers and ~20,000 drivers. One of 3 backend engineers owning 10-14 services end-to-end. Migrated 20-25 data domains from Couchbase to CockroachDB, cutting read/write latency from ~160-250ms to 5-17ms. Replaced Supabase Auth with self-hosted Keycloak in 6-8 weeks with zero downtime across a 4-5 realm identity model.
Fiat-to-stablecoin (USDT/USDC) exchange platform; 1 of 2 backend engineers taking an inherited codebase live. Cut query latency on payment and exchange-rate endpoints by ~87-90% by redesigning the AWS RDS PostgreSQL schema and indexing strategy. Built IAM on Cognito with async processing through Lambda and SQS, and refactored the exchange and card-acquiring flows to live transactions.
Node.js Developer
Making Science
Jun 2023 - Jul 2024 (1 year 1 month)
Payme, Uzbekistan's national payment ecosystem (Humo, Uzcard, Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay), ~1M to ~2M active users. One of 2 backend engineers in a 25-person product team. Extracted 8 services from the monolith into NestJS microservices over JSON-RPC and Kafka under peak platform load of ~8-10k req/sec. Cut latency ~46% on financial monitoring via MongoDB aggregation rewrites and Redis caching.
Shared identity and multi-region messaging layer for Yara's global agritech platform (~2-3M user accounts). One of 2 backend engineers on a 20-person team. Built SMS/email delivery reaching 160 countries, routing between Twilio, Textlocal and Africa's Talking by market. Migrated 5 authorization services from Express.js to NestJS and cut notification processing time 20% via anti-spam filtering.
Full-stack Developer
GXB Development
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022 (2 months)
Team collaboration and project-management platform built on a 35-service architecture; one of 5 developers on a 10-person team. Cut API response times 30-40% with PostgreSQL indexing, table partitioning, materialized views and Redis caching. Built inter-service communication over gRPC and RabbitMQ, and integrated Stripe payment flows and AWS S3 storage.
Full-stack Developer
SIGMA LLC
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022 (4 months)
Configurable CRM platform for energy-sector companies. Backend-leaning full-stack role, one of 5 engineers on a 15-person team, in a polyglot codebase where NestJS services integrated with Java components over Kafka. Built NestJS services for financial-reporting workflows backed by Oracle SQL, worked across a React/ExtJS frontend and expanded unit test coverage.
Two client projects — a MedTech web application and a CRM system — covering backend APIs, database design and frontend work. Designed PostgreSQL and MongoDB schemas from scratch and built authentication and authorization with Node.js, Express.js, Auth0 and JWT. Built business logic alongside React/Redux components, wiring data through REST and GraphQL/Apollo.
Full-stack Developer
Elbrus Bootcamp
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021 (2 months)
Full-stack development intensive covering JavaScript, Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL and React, building web applications from database schema through to a deployed application.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Tyumen Industrial University
Master of Engineering, Civil Engineering
2015 - 2017
Tyumen State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering
2011 - 2015
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Postman
SwaggerHub
Swagger Inspector
AWS IAM
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon S3
Kubernetes
Docker Compose
CircleCI
DataGrip
DBeaver
MongoDB Compass
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Couchbase
Oracle
CockroachDB
Amazon Route 53
Sentry
Node.js
NestJS
Azure Stack
Redis
Terraform
IntelliJ IDEA
Jest
Jasmine
React
AngularJS
JavaScript
Java
Go
Apache JMeter
Logstash
ELK
Amazon ElastiCache
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Amazon SQS
BullMQ
ExpressJS
Fastify
Kibana
AppDynamics
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
GraphQL
Oracle PL/SQL
gRPC
JSON-RPC
Elasticsearch
AWS Lambda
Amazon RDS
Redux
TypeScript
Visual Studio Code
Auth0
Keycloak
Amazon Cognito
OAuth2
Docker
Twilio
Amazon Elastic Container Service
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
SQL
Postico
NgRx
Mongoose
PostHog
Supabase
Cursor
Claude Code
Express
Golang
Apache Kafka
AWS
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Salary expectations
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