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Backend Engineer

Resend· Engineering
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Remote$140k - $180kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Backend Engineer at Resend, a fully remote, globally distributed team building a modern email sending platform for developers. Focus on end-to-end feature ownership, reliable distributed systems, scalable APIs/databases, and strong engineering quality within a remote, Americas/European timezone-friendly setup.

Responsibilities

  • 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 what you build, with meaningful monitoring, safe deployments, and participation in our on-call rotation.
  • Work closely with support and customers to understand recurring problems and turn them into product improvements.
  • Improve engineering quality, strengthening tests, tooling, and existing systems alongside building new capabilities.

Qualifications

  • Have 8+ years of software engineering experience, with substantial experience building and operating backend services in production
  • Have worked with queues, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems, including retries, duplicate events, concurrency, and partial failures
  • Have the ability to design systems from scratch and think through the rollout of those systems
  • Understand cloud infrastructure and service operations, including deployments, observability, capacity, and debugging production issues
  • Have experience designing APIs and relational data models, diagnosing slow queries, and making safe database changes
  • Have experience managing production infrastructure with infrastructure as code, using tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
  • Are comfortable working across the stack to deliver a complete product experience
  • Take initiative, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and know when to ask for help
  • Enjoy helping other developers and care about the details that make software easy to use
  • Communicate clearly in written and spoken English and can consistently work with overlap during Americas working hours

Skills

Required:Node.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQL
Nice to have:Go

Benefits

  • Comp: $140,000 - $180,000 USD, commensurate with location and experience
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Resend

Email for developers

Resend is the new email API for developers. It's designed for you to build, test, and send transactional emails at scale. If you're using Sendgrid, AWS SES, or Postmark, come talk to us.

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