Backend Software Engineer - US Remote

Role Overview

Backend Software Engineer (US Remote), full-time. You’ll design, build, and scale integration-heavy backend services that process large volumes of transactions and data in a high-ownership engineering culture.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using TypeScript and NestJS
• Architect scalable APIs, integrations, and event-driven systems
• Build and optimize high-throughput workflows for large transaction/data volumes
• Design data models, service architectures, and integration patterns for distributed systems
• Develop asynchronous processing using queues, workers, and background jobs
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations to translate requirements into scalable solutions
• Improve platform reliability, performance, and operational efficiency
• Implement observability: logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and alerting
• Contribute to API design, documentation, and internal tooling
• Participate in architectural discussions and influence long-term platform strategy
• Use modern AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and code quality
• Own projects end-to-end from design through deployment and ongoing optimization

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Strong TypeScript experience and production backend development with NestJS (or similar Node.js frameworks)
• Proven experience designing/building scalable backend services and APIs
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous processing
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs, webhooks, and external platforms
• Solid system design skills for large-scale, complex architectures
• Experience with observability/monitoring and production troubleshooting
• Strong software engineering best practices (testing, maintainability)
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration
• Proactive, ownership-driven mindset; able to work independently in a remote environment

Nice to Have

• Queue/background job tools such as BullMQ (or similar)
• Familiarity with Next.js or modern frontend frameworks
• Experience with high-volume, transactional or integration-heavy systems
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure and DevOps best practices
• Startup/high-growth environment experience
• Knowledge of microservices and platform engineering concepts
• Experience using AI-powered development tools in the workflow