We’re Hiring: Backend TypeScript Engineer (5+ Years Experience)
📍 Remote
Full-time
5+ yrs exp
🟡 75% complete
Description
🚀 We’re Hiring: Backend TypeScript Engineer (5+ Years Experience)
📍 Location: Lagos, Nigeria (Remote-first)
💼 Employment Type: Full-time
💰 Salary: ₦800,000 – ₦1,000,000/month
About Pilota
Pilota is an AI-powered fleet management platform built for independent car rental operators. If you’re passionate about building AI-powered backend systems and shipping production-ready software, we’d love to hear from you.
What You’ll Do
You’ll own full-stack backend development across our Fastify 5 API and Managed Agents runtime, combining production-grade TypeScript with AI prompt engineering.
Must Have:
* Strong TypeScript skills
* REST API design
* JWT Authentication
* Webhook verification
* Rate limiting & idempotency
* Experience with LLM APIs (Anthropic SDK or OpenAI)
* PostgreSQL
* Fastify or similar Node.js framework
Bonus Skills:
* Drizzle ORM
* pgvector
* Advanced prompt engineering
* SSE/WebSockets
* Experience in regulated industries (payments, identity verification, tax, insurance)
* Background job scheduling
Nice to Have:
* Multi-agent AI architectures
* Anthropic Claude SDK (Managed Agents, MCP)
* React Native knowledge
Recruitment Process
1️⃣ Live Coding Interview (Data structure and Algorithm)
2️⃣ Technical Interview
3️⃣ Offer
📩 How to Apply
Send your CV to support@treft.co.uk with the subject:
Backend TS Engineer — Lagos
Requirements
Requirements
✅ 5+ years of backend engineering experience
Responsibilities
Your responsibilities include:
* Building and maintaining secure Fastify APIs
* Developing AI agent runtimes and prompt engineering workflows
* Integrating LLM APIs (Anthropic/OpenAI)
* Working with PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, and pgvector
* Building webhook integrations (Stripe, DocuSign, Telnyx, etc.)
* Managing SSE streaming backends
* Writing SQL migrations and maintaining scheduled workers
* Creating automated tests with Vitest
* Improving AI specialist evaluation and learning pipelines
Skills
Typescript
React
Node
Sql
Postgresql
Rest
Api
Ai
React native