140K–180K USD / year
Software Engineer, Backend
BackendRemote — Americas
Published on 2026-09-18
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About this role
Resend is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build and operate reliable distributed systems for their modern email platform. The role involves owning features end-to-end, scaling APIs and databases, and improving engineering quality. Candidates should have over 8 years of experience in backend services and a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure.
About the company
Resend builds an email API for developers to send transactional and marketing email with deliverability tooling. It serves product and engineering teams that need reliable sending infrastructure.
The team
Engineering
Stack
Node.jsTypeScriptGoPostgresAWS
What you'll do
- Own features end-to-end from proposal to operation
- Build reliable distributed systems
- Scale APIs and databases
- Participate in on-call rotation
- Collaborate with support and customers for product improvements
- Improve engineering quality through testing and tooling
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience with queues and distributed systems
- Ability to design systems from scratch
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure and service operations
- Experience with API and relational data model design
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, AWS CDK)
- Comfortable working across the stack
Nice to have
- Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres
- Experience operating services on AWS
- Background in developer tools or email infrastructure