The Role You will build the application API layer in Node.js on top of Microsoft SQL Server. In practice, the work runs roughly 70% API and service development, 30% database work - but the database 30% is what makes the other 70% possible. A great deal of Flexi's accounting logic lives in T SQL today, and you will be the person who can read it, reason about it, decide what belongs in the API and what stays in the database, and make both sides fast.
This is not a role where you hand SQL off to someone else. We are looking for a back-end developer who is genuinely strong in SQL Server - someone who reads an execution plan without flinching, knows why a query went sideways after a schema change, and has opinions about indexing that they can defend.
You will report to the engineering lead and work on a small, dedicated team of fewer than ten engineers. Small team, real ownership: the design decisions you make will be visible in the product and in the codebase for years.
What You'll Do - Build API services - design, develop, test, and document RESTful services in TypeScript on Node.js (NestJS or Express).
- Work across the data boundary - write and tune T-SQL, design and evolve schemas, and make deliberate case-by-case calls about whether business logic belongs in a stored procedure or in the service layer.
- Carry legacy logic forward - read and understand existing legacy database code, and translate it into the new architecture without losing the accounting behavior our customers depend on.
- Make it fast under real load - profile and optimize queries, indexes and API endpoints for concurrency and large data volumes; diagnose performance problems from execution plans and query statistics.
- Build for multi-tenancy - implement tenant isolation, data partitioning and access patterns that hold up as the tenant count grows.
- Support both deployment models - write code that works against Azure SQL Database in our cloud and Microsoft SQL Server in customer on-premises installations, and account for the differences between them.
- Contribute to architecture - participate in design discussions for new functionality; on a team this size, mid-level engineers are expected to have a voice in the design, not just an assignment.
- Fix what breaks - investigate and resolve defects surfaced through QA and customer support, including issues that only appear at customer data volumes.
- Write the tests and the docs - unit and integration tests for the code you ship, and technical documentation your teammates can actually use.
Requirements
What We're Looking For - 4-7 years of professional back-end development experience.
- Strong Node.js skills, with production experience building REST APIs - NestJS, Express, or comparable.
- Professional TypeScript experience. We expect working fluency with typed JavaScript (TypeScript) rather than a willingness to learn it.
- Deep Microsoft SQL Server / T-SQL expertise: stored procedures, views, functions, triggers, transactions and isolation levels, indexing strategy, and query tuning from execution plans. SQL Server 2017 or newer.
- Practical experience with concurrency in a high-volume OLTP system: transaction isolation levels, locking and blocking, deadlock diagnosis, and row-versioning approaches such as snapshot isolation. In an accounting system, a lost update is not a performance problem; it is a financial error.
- Demonstrated ability to design and evolve relational schemas for transactional systems, including migrations against databases that are already in production.
- Experience troubleshooting performance problems in high-volume data environments.
- Solid grasp of API design fundamentals: versioning, authentication and authorization, error handling, and backward compatibility.
- Comfort with Git and modern development workflow - branching, code review, CI.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Clear written and verbal communication: accurate status updates, early flagging of risk, and the judgment to raise a problem before it becomes a deadline.
- Ability to own tasks through to completion without detailed supervision, and to estimate your own work realistically.
Preferred - Experience in a professional environment using C# and the .NET stack.
- Multi-tenant SaaS architecture experience, particularly tenant isolation and data-partitioning approaches.
- Azure platform experience: Azure SQL Database, App Service, Azure DevOps.
- Background in accounting, ERP, or financial software, or in any domain where data correctness is non-negotiable.
- Experience with commercial software that ships to customers, as opposed to internal-only systems.
- The Atlassian tool suite - Jira, Confluence, and Loom.
- Reporting and analytics exposure - Microsoft Fabric, the umbrella Microsoft's data and analytics services are consolidating under, along with Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics.
Why This Role Is Worth Your Time Re-platforming a proven product is a specific kind of engineering problem, and a genuinely interesting one. You get the freedom of a modern stack with the discipline of real customers and real accounting requirements - no hand-waving about what the software has to do, because it already does it. You will learn the domain deeply, work on a team small enough that your decisions matter, and end up with the rare combination of strong API skills and strong database skills that makes a back-end developer hard to replace.
Location & Schedule This is a hybrid position based in metro Atlanta, Georgia, with several days per week in our Atlanta office. Candidates must be local to the Atlanta market or willing to relocate before starting.
Compensation & Benefits Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. Flexi provides excellent benefits including paid holidays and paid time off, a 401(k) plan with company participation, health and dental insurance, life and disability insurance, and a vision discount plan.
How to Apply Candidates should be prepared to discuss their specific experience, share examples of their work, and speak in depth about the technologies listed above - particularly a SQL Server performance problem they diagnosed and fixed themselves.
Only candidates under consideration will be contacted. Any offer of employment will be contingent upon a positive background check. No phone calls, please. Principals only-no agencies or third-party recruiters. Drug-free workplace.
