Node.js Developer, Chat Platform

About the role

Kalachuchi Digital is hiring a Node.js developer in Cebu. This role owns services that other systems depend on: HTTP APIs, background workers and the queues between them. The interesting part is not writing the happy path but deciding what happens when a downstream call times out halfway through and the same message arrives again ten minutes later.

Salaries in the Philippines are advertised as a MONTHLY figure, and the range below is monthly gross before the statutory 13th-month pay.

What the work actually looks like

You will design endpoints and their contracts, model the data behind them, and keep the whole thing observable enough that an incident is a five-minute investigation rather than an afternoon. Expect a steady mix of new feature work, schema evolution on live data, and improving how the services behave under load. The team works a hybrid week out of Cebu, usually three days together and the rest wherever you work best.

What we look for

This is a mid-level role. You should already be able to take a loosely specified problem, break it down and ship it without close supervision. We want someone comfortable with asynchronous code that does not leak, who reaches for idempotency keys before being asked, and who has opinions about where validation belongs. Experience running what you wrote in production counts for more than framework familiarity.

Working at Kalachuchi Digital

Any shift requirement is stated up front, and night differential and transport allowances are paid where a shift applies. The range shown is a MONTHLY figure, which is how this market advertises salaries — it is not an annual number.