After this lesson, you will be able to: Translate Node + TS backend skills into resume bullets + interview answers for backend engineer roles.
Node + TS is the #1 backend hiring stack for 2026 startups + many enterprises.
Node.js Backend Engineer: $100-$180k. Full-Stack TS Engineer: $120-$200k. Tech Lead (Node): $180-$300k. Search 'node engineer', 'typescript backend' on LinkedIn.
Skills: Node 20+, TS, Fastify/Express, Prisma, Postgres, Zod, Lucia/Auth.js, OAuth, Vitest+Supertest, pino logging, SIGTERM graceful shutdown. Projects: live API URL + GitHub repo + tests.
'Walk me through an API you built.' 'Sessions or JWT, which + why?' 'How do you handle graceful shutdown?' 'Where do you validate request bodies?' 'How would you scale this to 100K req/s?'
Two in 30 days.
Ship pl-node-passion with live URL.
Write a blog: 'Why I picked Fastify over Express' OR 'How I added OAuth in 4 hours'.
Contribute to an OSS Node project (Prisma, Fastify, Lucia, Hono).
Publish a tiny npm package (a util library you actually use).
Listing 'Node' without a deployed API. Skipping testing depth. No OAuth experience in 2026 = junior signal.
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