Software Engineer (NodeJS)

About Exoticca

Exoticca is a pioneering online travel agency that has revolutionized the conception, production, and e-commerce of long-distance dream trips. At the core of Exoticca's brand equity is the commitment to "creating life milestones." We believe in delivering best-value trips, exploring unique destinations, curating extraordinary travel experiences, and demonstrating genuine care for both our customers and the planet.

We are a professional, dynamic, multicultural team in rapid international growth, seeking new partners to help us create the best and most forward-thinking travel company of our generation.

What are we proposing?

We are looking for tech-heroes with the desire to contribute to our mission, who admire different world cultures and have huge respect for the environment, who moreover feel energized with challenges and love being part of our company growth.

As a Node.js Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and building a modern, scalable backend using NestJS, TypeScript, and MongoDB.

You’ll develop robust, maintainable services that power our platform, ensuring performance, reliability, and seamless integration across systems.

Your technical insight and creativity will help shape a modular, event-driven architecture (EDA) that enables efficient communication between services and supports our continuous growth and evolution of our e-commerce website

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend services, contributing to the evolution of a modern, event-driven architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions that are reliable, efficient, and easy to extend.
• Implement and maintain clean service interfaces and data flows following EDA principles, ensuring smooth communication between components and systems.
• Write high-quality, testable code supported by automated testing and continuous integration pipelines.
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical design sessions to uphold engineering standards and promote knowledge sharing.
• Continuously improve system design and development practices to support scalability and future growth of the platform.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining backend applications in Node.js production environments.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB, including data modeling and performance optimization for document-based systems.
• Solid knowledge of RESTful API design, development, and integration best practices.
• Experience working with event-driven architectures (EDA) and message-based communication between services.
• Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and clean architecture principles.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and version control best practices using Git (GitHub Actions or similar).
• Strong emphasis on testing (unit, integration) and commitment to code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Familiarity with observability practices — including logging, monitoring, and tracing — to ensure visibility and reliability across distributed services.
• Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript for building scalable, maintainable backend services.
• Experience with MongoDB and effective data modeling for document-based databases.
• Proven ability to design and integrate RESTful APIs with attention to performance and reliability.
• Knowledge of testing practices (unit and integration) and a strong focus on code quality.
• Familiarity with observability principles, including logging, monitoring, and tracing in distributed systems.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively within cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, in line with job responsibilities and experience.
• Flexible compensation on transportation and food with Cobee also in our private health insurance.
• Flexible working schedule, just make sure you meet your monthly goals!
• 100% Remote working within Spain.
• Permanent contract from the start.
• Travel with Exoticca at reduced prices !!!
• Referral bonus, if you bring people as talented as you can earn a very nice bonus!
• And last but not least, becoming part of a fun and motivated multicultural team at an agile and rapid growing organization where teamwork, drive, commitment, resilience and being customer-centric are the core values.

Exoticca is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusiveness are our core. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under European, country, or local law.