Backend Engineer – Freelance

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🕒 July 21

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Make - letsMake.com | A studio making world-class products, platforms & systems 💯

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💰 $20k Seed Round on 2014-08

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Make is a purpose-driven innovation studio that specializes in creating world-class products, platforms, and systems. With roots as Oven Bits, Make focuses on software services, combining servant-leadership, craft, and capabilities to deliver exceptional user experiences. They offer a full cycle of digital services, including discovery, design, development, data engineering, and analytics. Make has a strong emphasis on data-driven solutions, helping clients move markets, leverage data, and personalize experiences across various platforms such as web, mobile, and IoT. Headquartered in Dallas, TX, Make is committed to integrating client ideas into memorable solutions that go beyond the status quo.

📋 Description

• Join a team of AI-first engineers • Build and maintain backend services using TypeScript and Node.js • Integrate backend functionality with third-party APIs and external data services • Write clean, readable, and well-tested code • Use AI tools daily to streamline development, debugging, refactoring, and documentation workflows without compromising quality • Work closely with other engineers in a remote-first environment, proactively communicating progress, blockers, and risks • Identify issues proactively, spotting bugs, performance bottlenecks, or architectural risks early and taking ownership of solutions

🎯 Requirements

• +5 years of backend experience • +2 years of Node experience • Hands-on experience building at least one large-scale system from scratch • An AI-first mindset • Hands-on experience using Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex • Excellent communication skills and comfort working in an asynchronous, remote environment • A proactive, ownership-driven mindset: you see problems, raise them early, and help solve them • Comfort operating in a 100% operational role, managing priorities and complexity independently

🏖️ Benefits

• Available for meetings in Central Time, with at least 2–3 hours of daily overlap • Full-time availability required (Aug through Dec 2026)