diff --git a/backend/tsconfig.json b/backend/tsconfig.json
index 3ad2f748..b550206a 100644
--- a/backend/tsconfig.json
+++ b/backend/tsconfig.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     "baseUrl": "./",
     "incremental": true,
     "skipLibCheck": true,
-    "strictNullChecks": false,
+    "strictNullChecks": true,
     "noImplicitAny": false,
     "strictBindCallApply": false,
     "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": false,