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Dedicated Node.js engineers

Hire Node.js developers who treat queues and TypeScript as the product, not extras.

Need a Node.js engineer for APIs, workers, or a TypeScript service beside a Laravel app? DayDecoder staffs Node as a first-class backend: typed contracts, retries, and observability — with overlap hours for the US, UK, Europe and Australia.

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What a DayDecoder Node.js developer ships.

We hire Node.js people for services that must stay up under webhooks, sockets and job retries — not for throwing Express on a tutorial folder and calling it an architecture.

A typical brief is a TypeScript API in front of PostgreSQL, a BullMQ or similar worker for slow jobs, and a small set of webhooks that must not double-charge a customer. Another is a Node process next to Laravel: Laravel owns the domain and admin, Node owns a realtime or AI sidecar. We have written about that split in our Node.js queue guide and in the AI-integration articles on this blog.

On the public portfolio, Node.js shows up on the smart-city IoT board alongside Python, MQTT and PostgreSQL: device messages in, a dashboard out, alerts when something in the city fabric misbehaves. That is a narrower Node footprint than our Laravel catalogue, and we will not pad it. If your product is a large Node monolith, the intro call is where we say whether we are the right seat or whether you need a larger Node shop.

  • Typed HTTP APIs

    Express, Fastify or a similar stack, with request validation, versioned routes, and OpenAPI when another team consumes the service.

  • Queues and workers

    BullMQ or equivalent: retries with backoff, poison queues, and metrics so “the job is stuck” is a dashboard, not a guess.

  • Realtime and sockets

    Presence, notifications, or live IoT readings. We pick WebSockets or SSE because of the client, not because sockets sound modern.

  • Sidecars for Laravel or AI

    A Node worker that calls OpenAI, parses documents, or fans out events, while PHP keeps the source of truth. Clear boundaries beat a second monolith.

Skills and tool stack

Node.js tools we expect a hire to know.

JavaScript fatigue is real. We standardise on TypeScript, a boring HTTP framework, and a queue we can operate.

The founder built ArikaJS, a Node.js and TypeScript framework with packages for auth, dates and deployment. That is public on GitHub; it is not a claim that every client product runs on it. Client work uses the stack you already have unless we agree a change in the proposal.

Runtime

  • Node.js LTS
  • TypeScript
  • pnpm or npm with a lockfile

HTTP & data

  • Express
  • Fastify
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Prisma or Knex when the repo already uses them

Jobs & realtime

  • BullMQ
  • webhooks
  • WebSockets
  • SSE

Delivery

  • Vitest or Jest
  • ESLint
  • Docker
  • CI on pull requests

Engagement models

Dedicated Node.js time, a part-time seat, or hourly specialists.

Node work is often a service, not a whole company. We size the hire to the service, not to a sales target.

Dedicated full-time Node.js developer

Owns the TypeScript service end to end: API, workers, deploys. Makes sense when Node is a product surface, not a weekend script.

Part-time dedicated

A few days a week beside your in-house JS team, or beside a Laravel squad that needs a realtime or AI worker without hiring a whole Node department.

Hourly Node.js help

A failing webhook, a memory leak, a BullMQ backlog. Time-logged. We will tell you if the leak is actually an architecture conversation.

Hiring process

How we place a Node.js developer on your team.

Bring the package.json, the queue, and who pages you at 2 a.m. We will not start from a blank “MERN” slide.

  1. 1

    Map the service

    Runtime version, TypeScript or not, queue, database, and how you deploy. Thirty minutes with the founder.

  2. 2

    Written Node proposal

    Dedicated, part-time or hourly, plus whether we recommend keeping Node beside Laravel instead of rewriting PHP.

  3. 3

    Repo, secrets, observability

    Access to Git, staging, and whatever you use for logs and APM. A hire who cannot see errors cannot own them.

  4. 4

    First typed change

    A small PR with tests. Proof the toolchain runs, not a three-week “setup sprint” with nothing in production.

  5. 5

    Weekly demo of the service

    An endpoint, a job, or a socket behaviour you can hit yourself, in overlap hours.

Node.js overlap with US, UK, EU and Australian hours.

Webhooks and queues fail when the other party is awake. We keep afternoon overlap with the UK and Europe for incident decisions, a late window for US East Coast releases, and early calls for Australia. Batch refactors run in India hours so your stand-up is not a status novel.

If the Node service is customer-facing realtime, we agree in the proposal which hours someone is reachable. One dedicated engineer is not a follow-the-sun NOC. We would rather write that limit down than imply 24/7 coverage we cannot staff.

  • United States

    Morning updates waiting in your inbox when the US workday starts.

  • United Kingdom

    Same-day overlap for calls, reviews, and decisions.

  • Europe

    Afternoon overlap with Central and Eastern European teams.

  • Australia

    Early-morning calls that fit the Australian workday.

Why hire Node.js developers from DayDecoder.

You get a backend team that already ships Laravel and cloud, so a Node sidecar does not become an orphan repo with a different culture.

  • TypeScript as a default, not a poster

    New Node work is typed. Existing JS is migrated in slices. We do not freeze a 2,000-line JavaScript file and call it heritage.

  • Queues treated as product

    Retries, idempotency and dead letters are part of the hire’s job. Our Node.js queue article is the same advice we give in a kickoff.

  • Honest about the portfolio mix

    Laravel is our largest public catalogue. Node.js is real and smaller. If you need a 20-person Node department, we will say we are not that.

  • You own the service

    Custom Node.js and IP transfer on payment. Lockfiles, Docker and README included so another team can run it on Monday.

Relevant work

Node.js work in the public portfolio.

Where a project lists Node.js in its stack, we link it here. We do not relabel Laravel apps as Node to fill a grid.

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FAQ

Questions about hiring Node.js developers.

Straight answers on the stack, ownership and time zones. Email us if yours is missing.

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Yes. That is a common split: Laravel for the domain and admin, Node for realtime, workers or an AI sidecar. We write the boundary in the proposal so you do not end up with two sources of truth.

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