Backend Engineer

Nordic Analytics is building an institutional intelligence platform for private capital — and we're hiring a Backend Engineer to join the founding engineering team.

Backend work at early-stage fintech companies involves a different quality of problem than at most junior roles. The data you're building systems for — fund performance metrics, capital flows, investor allocations — is the kind that large institutions pay significant fees to access in better form. You're building the infrastructure that delivers that value.

You'll work with the Founding Engineer on backend systems that handle real financial data for institutional users. The work is technical, consequential, and directly tied to what the product does. The backend systems you build will be foundational — decisions made now about data models, API contracts, and pipeline architecture will persist.

This is an early-stage role with equity participation for strong contributors. We're not looking for someone to manage tickets. We're looking for someone who wants to build.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain backend API services in Node.js that power the platform's core functionality
• Develop data ingestion pipelines for importing portfolio and fund data from CSV, Excel, and external sources
• Contribute to database schema design for fund administration, portfolio monitoring, and reporting modules
• Implement authentication logic and support the role-based access control (RBAC) layer
• Build backend integrations for third-party data sources and export functionality
• Write clean, documented backend code with appropriate error handling and logging
• Support the audit trail and activity logging infrastructure required for institutional compliance

Qualifications:

• Node.js development experience with RESTful API design patterns
• Understanding of relational databases: schema design, queries, and data modeling
• Familiarity with authentication systems (JWT, OAuth, session management)
• Ability to write backend logic that handles real data with appropriate validation and error handling
• Basic understanding of data pipelines and file-based data ingestion (CSV/Excel processing)
• Bonus: PostgreSQL, Docker, cloud infrastructure, event-driven patterns, and financial data integrations

Nice to have:

Interest in fintech, private equity, or capital markets

Experience working in a team environment using Git workflows (branching, pull requests, code review)

Familiarity with testing frameworks or writing unit/integration tests