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Backend Engineer

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

About the role

Senior backend engineer role at Resend, focusing on building and operating reliable, scalable backend services, APIs, and infrastructure for a fast-growing email platform. Fully remote within Americas or European timezones with some travel.

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 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

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 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
  • Ability to design systems from scratch and plan rollout
  • Understanding of cloud infrastructure and service operations, including deployments, observability, capacity, and debugging production issues
  • Experience designing APIs and relational data models, diagnosing slow queries, and safe database changes
  • Experience managing production infrastructure with infrastructure as code (Terraform or AWS CDK)
  • Comfort working across the stack to deliver a complete product experience
  • Initiative, clear communication of tradeoffs, knowing when to ask for help
  • Enjoy helping other developers and attention to details that improve usability
  • Clear written and spoken English with overlap during Americas working hours

Skills

Required:Node.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLAWSTerraform
Nice to have:Go

Benefits

  • Remote work with flexible hours
  • Meaningful ownership and autonomy
  • High bar for quality
  • Collaborative, low-ego team culture
  • Travel for team offsites, conferences, meetups, and more
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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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