Backend Software Engineer - US Remote

Backend Software Engineer (US Remote)

Join a high-ownership engineering culture building critical infrastructure for high-volume, real-time business operations.

Role Overview

You will design, build, and scale integration-heavy backend services that process large volumes of transactions and data, working closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• 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 transactional/data processing
• Design data models and integration patterns for complex distributed systems
• Implement asynchronous processing using queues, workers, and background jobs
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions with cross-functional teams
• Improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency
• Apply observability best practices: logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, alerting
• Contribute to API design, documentation, developer experience, and internal tooling
• Participate in architectural discussions and influence long-term platform strategy
• Take ownership from design through deployment and continuous optimization
• Use modern AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and code quality

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Strong TypeScript and production experience with NestJS (or similar Node.js frameworks)
• Proven experience designing and 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 environments
• Experience with observability/monitoring and production troubleshooting
• Strong testing and maintainability practices
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a remote environment

Nice to Have

• Queue/background job tools such as BullMQ
• Familiarity with Next.js or other 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/platform engineering concepts
• Experience using AI-powered development tools in daily workflow