You need a back-end engineer who can own a Node.js service in production, not a resume that lists it. Kiyansh Group places vetted contract, contract-to-hire, and direct Node.js / Express / TypeScript professionals — senior, US-based, and screened against real code before they reach your inbox. This page explains what we provide, how we actually vet, and what timelines look like so you can plan the hire.
Tell us what you need →We staff senior Node.js back-end engineers on three models: contract (project or capacity-based, W-2 or corp-to-corp), contract-to-hire (you evaluate on a live engagement before converting), and direct placement. Everyone we submit is US-based and works on your time zone and your standup — there is no offshore hand-off, no overnight black box, and no team behind the team you never meet. Where a candidate is an H-1B contractor, that status is disclosed up front and handled correctly.
The people we place are back-end specialists, not generalists who once touched an API. That means engineers who have designed Express or Fastify services under load, written TypeScript that a team can maintain, owned a Postgres or Mongo schema through migrations, and debugged the async and memory problems that only show up in production. As a US technology-services and staffing firm, Kiyansh also builds software directly with AI-augmented senior teams — so we screen candidates the way we'd screen someone joining our own delivery work, not the way a resume broker forwards keywords.
Every candidate goes through a live technical screen with a senior engineer before you see them. That is a working session, not a trivia quiz: reading and extending real Node code, reasoning about the event loop and async control flow, handling errors and back-pressure, and explaining trade-offs they've actually made. We check that they can talk through a decision they got wrong and what they changed — which separates people who shipped and maintained services from people who read about them.
Concretely, we probe the things that break in production: async/await and promise handling (including unhandled rejections and race conditions), streams and back-pressure, TypeScript type modeling versus `any`-everywhere, request validation, auth (JWT, OAuth2, session handling), and database access patterns including N+1 queries, connection pooling, and transaction boundaries. We look for testing discipline (Jest, Vitest, or Mocha, plus Supertest for HTTP layers) and an understanding of observability — structured logging, tracing, and how they'd diagnose a latency spike.
We also verify fit before submission: right seniority, right domain, realistic rate, and genuine availability on your timeline. You get a short, honest writeup on each candidate — strengths, gaps, and where they'd need ramp — instead of a stack of forwarded PDFs. If someone isn't right for the role, we say so rather than filling the pipeline.
For Node back-end work we screen against the stack teams really run: Express or Fastify (and NestJS where a team wants structure), TypeScript in strict mode, and a real database layer — PostgreSQL or MySQL with an ORM or query builder like Prisma, TypeORM, Knex, or Drizzle, and MongoDB with Mongoose where document storage fits. On the async and integration side we look for hands-on experience with Redis for caching and queues, message brokers or job systems (BullMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka), and REST plus GraphQL (Apollo) API design.
Around the code, the operational skills carry weight: Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and deploying to AWS, GCP, or Azure — including Lambda and serverless patterns where they apply. Certifications are secondary to demonstrated work, but a relevant AWS Associate or Professional cert is a reasonable signal for cloud-heavy roles. We weight what the engineer can show and explain over the badges on their profile, and we tell you which of your must-haves a candidate genuinely has versus has only touched.
Contract is the fastest path when you have defined work and need capacity now. Contract-to-hire suits teams that want to see production output before committing to a full-time headcount. Direct placement makes sense when the role is permanent and you'd rather we run the technical screen than absorb it into your own pipeline. We'll recommend the model that fits the work — and push back if you're reaching for the wrong one.
On timing, we don't promise same-day miracles. For a well-defined Node contract role, expect vetted, screened candidates in your inbox within several business days to about two weeks, depending on seniority, rate, and how specific the requirements are. Niche combinations — say, high-throughput event-driven systems plus a specific cloud and domain — take longer because the honest answer is that fewer people qualify. We'd rather set a real timeline and hit it than flood you with near-misses to look fast.
US-based. The engineer you interview is the engineer who does the work, on your time zone and in your standups. There is no offshore hand-off and no hidden team. Where a candidate is an H-1B contractor, we disclose that up front and handle the compliance correctly.
Every candidate does a live technical screen with a senior engineer — reading and extending real Node code, reasoning through async control flow, error handling, database access patterns, and TypeScript modeling. You receive an honest writeup of each candidate's strengths and gaps, not a stack of forwarded resumes.
For a well-defined role, expect screened candidates within several business days to about two weeks, depending on seniority, rate, and how specific the requirements are. Highly niche stacks take longer because fewer people genuinely qualify — we give you a real timeline rather than padding the pipeline.
Tell Kiyansh Group what your Node.js service needs to do, and we'll send vetted, senior, US-based candidates — screened on real code — on a timeline we'll actually commit to.
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