Software Engineer, Backend

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🏈 North America – Remote

💵 $140k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

👻 Ghost score 21%

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2022

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

☁️ SaaS

💰 $3M Seed Round on 2023-07

Consulting • Marketing • SaaS

Resend is a developer-focused email platform designed to deliver transactional and marketing emails at scale. Its simple and elegant interface, along with SDKs for various programming languages, allows for seamless integration into developers' workflows. Companies of all sizes trust Resend for reliable email delivery, helping them reach humans instead of spam folders. The platform offers features like modular webhooks, contact management, broadcast analytics, and a powerful editor for creating beautiful email templates using React. Resend also provides insights into email interactions, secure domain authentication, and dedicated IP management to enhance deliverability.

📋 Description

• 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, 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

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience • Substantial experience building and operating backend services in production • Experience with queues, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems • 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 • Experience 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 to deliver a complete product experience • Clear 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • Flexibility around shared working hours • Meaningful ownership and autonomy • Collaborative, low-ego team environment • Remote team with flexibility around shared working hours • Expected travel for team offsites, conferences, meetups, and more