Hire a NestJS Developer — Scalable APIs, Remote Worldwide
Remote worldwide · UTC+5 · REST · GraphQL · microservices · queues
I'm Adnan Ali, a senior backend developer who has spent the last three years building enterprise APIs with NestJS — its modular, TypeScript-first architecture is how I keep large backends clean and testable. I've shipped a food-ordering API absorbing thousands of simultaneous orders, a bilingual car-marketplace backend with fast faceted search, and a multi-tenant estate-planning SaaS with role-based access and Stripe billing. Hire a NestJS developer and you get structured, documented services — not a pile of loose Express routes.
I work remotely worldwide from Lahore (UTC+5), overlapping European mornings and US East Coast afternoons, so there's daily live time for reviews and incident response. NestJS is my default for anything that has to stay maintainable as the team and the domain grow: guards, interceptors, DTO validation, and Swagger docs on every endpoint.
Recent, relevant work
Thousands of concurrent orders
Cheezious — Online Food Ordering System
NestJS API with Redis-backed queues coordinating kitchens, riders, and POS in real time.
read the case study →Bilingual marketplace search
Carswitch — Car Marketplace Platform
NestJS backend powering fast faceted car search across two languages.
read the case study →Multi-tenant SaaS
LegacySuite — Estate Planning Platform
NestJS estate-planning backend with role-based access and Stripe billing.
read the case study →What I build with NestJS
REST & GraphQL APIs
Cleanly-structured endpoints with DTO validation, guards, and auto-generated Swagger docs.
Microservices
Splitting a monolith into services that talk over queues or gRPC — without losing type safety.
Queue & job systems
Background processing and rate-limited work with BullMQ and Redis for spiky, order-heavy loads.
Auth & multi-tenancy
JWT and role-based access, plus tenant isolation for SaaS where client data must never leak.
Database & ORM
TypeORM or Prisma against PostgreSQL, with migrations, indexing, and query tuning.
Payments & integrations
Stripe billing, webhooks, and third-party API integrations wired and tested end to end.
Three steps, no mystery
Intro call
A 30-minute call to understand the goal, scope, and constraints. No charge, no obligation.
Written proposal
A scope with milestones, a timeline, and a fixed or weekly rate — whichever fits the work better.
Weekly delivery
Work ships in weekly increments you can review, with a shared board and a demo link that's always current.
Common questions
- How much does it cost to hire a NestJS developer?
- For freelance work I typically bill between $30 and $60 per hour depending on scope and commitment, or a fixed price for well-defined projects. Longer retainers cost less per hour. I always quote before we start, so there are no surprise invoices.
- Why NestJS instead of plain Express?
- Express is fine for small services, but on anything a team maintains long-term, NestJS's modules, dependency injection, and DTO validation pay for themselves. The structure keeps the codebase testable and easy to onboard into, instead of drifting into spaghetti.
- Do you work with US and EU timezones?
- Yes. I'm in Lahore (UTC+5), which overlaps EU mornings and US East Coast afternoons. I keep a few hours of daily live overlap for standups, pairing, and reviews, and I'm flexible on exact hours for the right project.
- Can you build microservices, or just monoliths?
- Both. I usually start with a well-structured modular monolith and split out services only when there's a real scaling or ownership reason — NestJS makes that split clean when the time actually comes.
- Do you write tests and documentation?
- Yes. I document endpoints with Swagger and enforce DTO validation end to end, and I write tests around the parts that would hurt most if they broke.