A lot of answers suggest a Node.js stack. I’d like to say that the problem with Node is that there isn’t really a “batteries included” stack you can choose from, unlike other languages.

You can indeed use Express.js for the HTTP part, but you’ll need to pick an ORM, a rest framework, etc and make sure they integrate properly which might include writing “glue” code to bring them together.

Unless you’re knowledgeable about Javascript I suggest you avoid this option and instead pick another language you know that happens to have a batteries-included framework like Django, Laravel or Rails just to make development faster as these frameworks include everything you need out of the box and are tested to work well out of the box.