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Join our engineering team in Sterling Heights and help us scale systems that handle traffic from across MI and beyond. The appeal is layered — $64,000 - $96,000, a freelance rhythm, technology ownership, and a TJX Companies crew that backs bold calls.
Key Responsibilities
- Ship incremental improvements to TJX Companies's Sterling Heights platform on a regular cadence
- Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements proactively
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs powering core TJX Companies products
- Own the community-minded Microsoft Azure subsystem that the rest of TJX Companies quietly depends on
- Watch React error budgets and pump the brakes before Sterling Heights, MI burns through them
- Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
- Own the full lifecycle of technology systems from prototype to production
- Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end
What You'll Bring
- Sharp written and verbal communication, tested under scrutiny
- Demonstrated comfort presenting to mid-level leadership
- A history of leaving technology processes better than you found them
- Experience thriving in a feedback-hungry, deadline-driven setting like TJX Companies
- Proven track record delivering results as a mid-level Backend Developer
TJX Companies was founded in Sterling Heights, MI on the idea that technology should be powerful yet refreshingly candidly-kind. The relentlessly curious pace here is real, but so is the permission to log off and recover.
Take $64,000 - $96,000, add a mentor invested in your rise, layer on benefits and remote options, and that is the TJX Companies offer in one breath.
Candidates are being contacted promptly as part of our active search.
If steady freelance work with real stakes appeals to you, the Backend Developer chair is waiting.