Autopilot
Backend Engineer, API & Features
New York, New York, US · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Experience
- 2-5 years of professional backend engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Unable to sponsor or transfer employment visas; candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship.
About the job
Build and maintain backend APIs, services, and customer-facing features for Autopilot’s trading platform and pilot portal.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain backend services, APIs, API contracts, data models, and business logic.
- Lead product-feature and pilot-portal development, including user interactions, data input, and persistence.
- Own features from technical design through testing, release, and iteration, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in TypeScript for backend development; other languages are also considered.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform or similar cloud infrastructure.
- Expertise in API design, relational data modeling, distributed systems, and cloud-hosted applications.
- Proven track record building and scaling backend systems to support rapid growth.
Nice to have
- Experience in trading, investing, or fintech platforms; hyper-growth startups; or integrations such as Robinhood, Stripe, or Plaid.
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or other cloud infrastructure and the listed backend technologies.
Tools
TypeScript, node.js, graphql, nest.js, gcp, google pubsub, postgres sql, AWS
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