resend - Backend Engineer

• 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. https://resend.com/handbook/engineering/how-we-handle-on-call-rotations • 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. • 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 • YOU WILL BE AN EXCEPTIONAL FIT IF YOU ALSO... • Have deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres • Have built and operated services on AWS, using serverless or container-based infrastructure • Have worked on developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure • WHAT IT MEANS TO JOIN THE TEAM: • Meaningful ownership: Help decide what we build and take responsibility for how it works • Autonomy: Make decisions, propose improvements, and move work forward • A high bar for quality: Care about everything from API behavior to how a service recovers from failure • A collaborative, low-ego team: Give honest feedback, share knowledge, and help each other grow • Remote work: Work with a fully remote team, with flexibility around shared working hours • Comp: $140,000 - $180,000 USD, commensurate with experience