Senior Backend Engineer

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🔥 13 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Trigger.dev

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2022

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Trigger. dev is a developer-focused platform for building and running AI-driven workflows and long-running background tasks in TypeScript (with Python support). It provides durable cron schedules, queues and concurrency controls, automatic retries, observability and real-time streaming to frontends, plus tooling for building autonomous AI agents with tool-calling and human-in-the-loop capabilities. Offered as an open-source, self-hostable solution and a managed SaaS with SDKs and integrations, it targets teams that need reliable, scalable orchestration of asynchronous jobs and LLM-based workflows.

📋 Description

• Build the Open Source and Cloud product • Design and implement SDK and platform features end to end, from API surface to production rollout • Develop scalable database schemas and data models • Create and optimize query performance and data access patterns • Build reliable, high-throughput, and durable backend systems for production load • Design and implement scalable API endpoints and services handling real customer traffic • Apply security best practices • Implement monitoring, logging, debugging, and observability tooling • Contribute to architecture decisions and the technical roadmap • Help customers, review pull requests, and create issues in the Discord and GitHub communities • Write documentation • Create content such as code examples, blog articles, videos, and tweets

🎯 Requirements

• Expertise in Node.js and TypeScript; Remix is used • Expertise with Postgres and Redis, including schema design, query tuning, and production operation • Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure • Comfortable being on call • Open to in-person events throughout the year • Proven track record contributing to open source projects • Previously been a venture-backed startup founder • Experience with React or Remix • Experience working on a high-throughput system • Experience designing SDKs for developers • Experience with self-managed Kubernetes • Familiarity with Linux • OTel or observability experience • Experience at a developer tools company • Experience with Go • Permanent residence in Europe within the GMT+3:00 to GMT+0:00 timezones

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous, transparent compensation and equity • Async working • Home office equipment support • 25 days vacation excluding national holidays • Sick leave • Generous parental leave • Annual training budget for books, Audible subscription, or online courses • Company pension scheme or contributions to a private pension • Paid task day • Remote work option and in-person team events throughout the year