Senior Backend Engineer

Nametag

Senior Backend Engineer designing scalable systems for identity verification and account protection at Nametag. Building backend services, databases, and APIs in a remote-first environment.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoJavaJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresPythonReactVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that power identity verification, account recovery, and account protection workflows
Own database schema design, migrations, query performance, and data integrity
Build and harden authentication, authorization, and data-protection systems
Design for correctness under load, including idempotency, safe retries, failure handling, and observability
Contribute to architecture decisions and help shape the technical roadmap
Partner with product and design to ship secure, usable customer-facing workflows
Build internal tools and dashboards that improve operational visibility and developer workflows
Make clean integration decisions across frontend, backend, third-party APIs, and customer systems
Operate what you build
Debug complex production issues across services, data, infrastructure, and user flows
Improve reliability, performance, testing, deployment, and observability
Review code, mentor peers, and raise the technical bar across the team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years building and operating production backend systems
Strong experience with backend languages such as Node.js, Go, Python, Java, or similar
Experience designing APIs and services used by real customers or high-scale internal systems
Strong relational database experience, PostgreSQL preferred, including schema design and query optimization
Hands-on cloud experience, AWS preferred
Familiarity with authentication, authorization, identity, security, or fraud and abuse prevention
Comfort working across the stack when needed, ideally with React, Vue, or a similar modern frontend framework
Clear communication and good judgment in a remote, cross-functional team.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote-first, US-based team
Quarterly team offsites
Flexible schedules
Meaningful equity ownership
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
Flexible paid time off
New computer hardware and equipment

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Hard Skills & Tools

Node.jsGoPythonJavaPostgreSQLAPI DevelopmentDatabase Schema DesignQuery OptimizationCloud ServicesObservability

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationGood Judgment