Жесть. Переделай на systemd.
vim /etc/systemd/system/backend.service
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /opt/backend/server.js
Restart=always
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=backend
User=root
Group=root
WorkingDirectory=/opt/backend
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start backend.service