Time Doctor: Back End Engineer - Fully Remote in APAC

Job description

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
• Join a 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

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 focus primarily on back-end development, while front-end skills will be considered a plus. 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

Team & Reporting Structure

• Reports directly to the Engineering Team Lead
• Works within the Product Engineering department (Engineering sub-team)
• Collaborates with Front End Engineers, QA Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers
• Role is fully remote; requires strong async communication skills

This role requires availability in APAC time zones to ensure smooth collaboration with our distributed engineering team. Candidates located in or able to work within these time zones will be prioritized.

Key Responsibilities

• Back-end development: Design, implement, test, and deploy scalable back-end services and applications
• API development: Build and maintain secure, efficient, and scalable RESTful APIs to connect front-end and back-end systems
• Database management: Design, optimize, and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases
• Performance optimization: Monitor and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, ensuring systems remain fast and reliable
• Collaboration: Partner with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Code quality: Write clean, maintainable code with proper testing (unit, integration, and end-to-end)
• System design: Participate in architecture discussions to ensure scalability, reliability, and security
• DevOps contribution: Work with CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, and containerized environments to streamline deployments

Job requirements

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• Back-end development: 4+ years professional experience with Node.js
• API development: 3+ years designing and maintaining RESTful APIs
• Databases: 3+ years with SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB)
• Testing: 2+ years experience with automated testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, Cypress, or similar)
• Cloud platforms: 2+ years experience deploying apps on AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Remote work: Proven success working in a fully remote, globally distributed SaaS environment
• Time zone availability: Must be located in, or able to work within, APAC time zones

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Front-end frameworks: 2+ years with React, Angular, or Vue
• Containerization: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• BigQuery: Hands-on experience with Google BigQuery for data pipelines
• CI/CD: Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment tools
• Security: Background in designing secure systems and following best practices