Node.js Developer Resume Template (2026)

A backend-focused Node.js resume with API design, performance, and reliability highlights.

Summary

Node.js backend engineer with 4 years of experience building high-throughput REST and GraphQL APIs. Specialise in event-driven architecture, stream processing, and PostgreSQL performance. Open to remote senior backend roles.

Experience
Senior Node.js Engineer
GoCardless — London, UK
Jan 2023 – Present
  • Rebuilt the payment webhook delivery service in Node.js + TypeScript — processes 3M events/day with 99.97% delivery success
  • Optimised PostgreSQL query performance across the billing API, reducing median response time from 210ms to 34ms
  • Introduced graceful shutdown and connection draining, eliminating in-flight request failures during deployments
  • Led migration from callback-style legacy code to async/await + structured logging, cutting error diagnosis time by 60%
Backend Engineer
Monzo — London, UK
Mar 2020 – Dec 2022
  • Built the transaction categorisation API in Node.js serving 6M+ users, handling 800 requests/sec at peak
  • Designed and implemented a rate-limiting middleware using Redis that reduced abuse-related incidents by 90%
  • Contributed to the team's OpenAPI spec-first development workflow, reducing integration bugs by 45%
Skills
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Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, Express, Fastify, GraphQL
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Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
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Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Terraform
Education
B.Eng., Computer Engineering
University of Lagos
Sep 2014 – Jul 2018

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