Backend Engineer
Resend · Remote · Europe ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote (Americas/EU)
- 8+ years experience
- Distributed systems focus
- Node.js, TypeScript, Go
- $140k-$180k USD
Join Resend's core engineering team to support the delivery of millions of emails daily. You will own features end-to-end, from API design to infrastructure operations, working with a small, quality-focused group that values developer experience and system reliability.
What you'll do
- Own features from scoping to building APIs and backend services
- Build reliable distributed systems handling spikes and failures
- Scale APIs and databases for performance and data integrity
- Operate services via monitoring, safe deployments, and on-call rotation
- Collaborate with support to turn customer issues into product improvements
- Strengthen engineering quality through better tests and tooling
What you'll need
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with backend services
- Experience with queues, async processing, and distributed systems
- Ability to design systems from scratch and plan rollouts
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, observability, and debugging
- Experience designing APIs, relational models, and optimizing queries
- Manage infrastructure using code tools like Terraform or AWS CDK
- Comfortable working across the stack to deliver complete products
- Clear communication in English with overlap during Americas hours
Nice to have
- Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres
- Built and operated services on AWS using serverless or containers
- Background in developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure
Stack
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Go
- Postgres
- AWS
- Terraform
- AWS CDK
How you'll work
- Fully remote team spanning 15 countries
- Based in Americas or European timezones
- Expected travel for offsites and conferences
- Flexibility around shared working hours
What you get
- Meaningful ownership over product decisions
- Autonomy to propose improvements and move work forward
- Collaborative, low-ego team culture
- High bar for quality and craft