Resend
Backend Engineer
$140K–$180K
Americas · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate backend services and APIs for Resend’s email platform, owning features from design through production operation.
What you'll do
- Design and deliver APIs, dashboard experiences, and backend services end-to-end.
- Build and scale reliable distributed systems, queues, databases, and background workers.
- Operate services through monitoring, safe deployments, on-call participation, and production improvements.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial experience building and operating backend services in production.
- Experience with queues, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems, including retries, duplicate events, concurrency, and partial failures.
- Experience designing APIs and relational data models, diagnosing slow queries, and making safe database changes.
- Experience managing production infrastructure with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or AWS CDK.
Nice to have
- Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres.
- Experience operating services on AWS, or working on developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure.
Pay
$140,000 - $180,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Postgres, AWS, Terraform, AWS CDK
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