Backend Engineer
Make - letsMake.com | A studio making world-class products, platforms & systems 💯
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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Tech Stack
About the role
- Build and maintain backend services using Node.js and TypeScript
- Implement APIs and business logic based on product and technical requirements
- Write clean, readable, and well-tested code
- Use AI tools daily to streamline development, debugging, refactoring, and documentation workflows
- Work closely with other engineers in a remote-first environment
- Identify issues proactively, spotting bugs, performance bottlenecks, or architectural risks early
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building at least one large-scale backend system from scratch
- Experience integrating 3rd party services into a system architecture
- +5 years of backend experience
- +2 years of Node.js experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Comfort working in an asynchronous, remote environment
- A proactive, ownership-driven mindset
- Comfort operating in a 100% operational role, managing priorities and complexity independently
Benefits
- Work-from-anywhere policy
- Eligibility for annual bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Node.jsTypeScriptAPI developmentbackend developmentclean codedebuggingrefactoringperformance optimizationsystem architecturelarge-scale systems
Soft skills
communicationproactive mindsetownershipindependent managementasynchronous workcollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailadaptabilitytime management