About Time Doctor

Time Doctor is a productivity analytics platform used by thousands of companies worldwide to measure, understand, and improve how work gets done. With over 150 team members across 45+ countries, we're fully remote, async-first, and deeply global in how we operate.

Why Join Us?

100% remote team that values async autonomy and flexibility
Mission-driven company shaping the future of work
Strong product-market fit with tens of thousands of users—and growing
Work with a global, humble, high-performing team
Competitive compensation and 30+ days PTO

The Role

As a Back End Engineer at Time Doctor, you'll play a key role in building scalable, secure, and high-performing web applications for a global SaaS product. You'll work closely with front-end engineers, QA, product managers, and other cross-functional stakeholders to deliver solutions that directly impact user experience, growth, and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, test, and deploy scalable back-end services and applications
Build and maintain secure, efficient, and scalable RESTful APIs
Design, optimize, and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases
Monitor and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks
Partner with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
Write clean, maintainable code with proper testing (unit, integration, and end-to-end)
Work with CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, and containerized environments

Requirements

4+ years professional experience with Node.js
3+ years designing and maintaining RESTful APIs
3+ years with SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
2+ years experience with automated testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, Cypress)
2+ years experience deploying apps on AWS, GCP, or Azure
Proven success working in a fully remote, globally distributed SaaS environment
Must be located in, or able to work within, APAC time zones

Nice-to-Have

Front-end frameworks experience (React, Angular, or Vue)
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Hands-on experience with Google BigQuery
Background in designing secure systems

Back End Engineer (APAC)

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