Software Engineer – Backend

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. Own features end-to-end, from proposing ideas and scoping projects to building APIs, dashboard experiences, and the services behind them .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $140,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in building and operating backend services, with a strong focus on API design, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure management. Proficient in enhancing engineering quality through effective testing, tooling, and collaboration within a small engineering team.

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8+ Years Of Software Engineering ExperienceBackend Services DevelopmentAPI Design And DevelopmentCloud Infrastructure ManagementNode.js, TypeScript, Go, And Postgres

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Hard Skills

Backend Services DevelopmentAPI DesignDistributed SystemsAsynchronous ProcessingRelational Data ModelsInfrastructure As CodeTerraformAWS CDKNode.jsTypeScript

Soft Skills

Clear Communication

Tools & Technologies

AWSServerless InfrastructureContainer-Based InfrastructureMonitoring ToolsDeveloper Tools

Industry Keywords

ObservabilityCapacity ManagementDebugging Production IssuesTraffic ManagementOn-Call Rotation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresTerraformTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own features end-to-end, from proposing ideas and scoping projects to building APIs, dashboard experiences, and the services behind them
Build reliable distributed systems, including queues and background workers that handle traffic spikes, retries, and failures predictably
Scale APIs and databases by improving performance, data integrity, and efficiency as usage grows
Operate built systems with meaningful monitoring, safe deployments, and participation in the on-call rotation
Work closely with support and customers to understand recurring problems and turn them into product improvements
Improve engineering quality by strengthening tests, tooling, and existing systems alongside building new capabilities
Collaborate with a small engineering team focused on developer experience, reliability, and quality

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of software engineering experience
Substantial experience building and operating backend services in production
Experience with queues, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems, including retries, duplicate events, concurrency, and partial failures
Ability to design systems from scratch and think through their rollout
Understanding of cloud infrastructure and service operations, including deployments, observability, capacity, and debugging production issues
Experience designing APIs and relational data models, diagnosing slow queries, and making safe database changes
Experience managing production infrastructure with infrastructure as code, using tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
Comfortable working across the stack
Ability to communicate clearly in written and spoken English
Ability to consistently work with overlap during Americas working hours
Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres
Experience building and operating services on AWS, using serverless or container-based infrastructure
Experience with developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure is an exceptional-fit qualification

Benefits

Comp & perks

Meaningful ownership: Help decide what we build and take responsibility for how it works
Autonomy: Make decisions, propose improvements, and move work forward
A high bar for quality
A collaborative, low-ego team
Fully remote work
Flexibility around shared working hours
Expected travel for team offsites, conferences, meetups, and more