Nango (YC W23)

Staff Backend Engineer

Nango (YC W23)

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $120,000 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

JavaScriptNode.js

About the role

  • Design and scale backend systems, APIs, and services for our open-source platform.
  • Build world-class developer interfaces: APIs, SDKs, UIs, and a runtime that delights developers.
  • Collaborate directly with customers to solve integration challenges.
  • Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability across backend services.
  • Shape the roadmap and company strategy with high ownership of key decisions.
  • Engage with the open-source community, owning and maintaining our repo.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with proven ability to scale high-traffic systems.
  • Deep experience with developer infrastructure, APIs, databases, and performance-critical systems.
  • Passion for developer tools, best practices, and building outstanding DX.
  • Comfortable with Node.js and modern backend stacks.
  • Strong communicator, proactive, and reliable in a remote-first environment.
  • Product mindset and developer empathy: you optimize for DX.
  • Pragmatic, positive, and low ego: you step up in incidents and unblock teammates.
  • Startup-ready: autonomous, ownership-driven, and able to navigate ambiguity.
Benefits
  • We aim to pay top-tier salaries among seed-stage startups, based on the team member location.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
backend engineeringAPIsdeveloper infrastructuredatabasesperformance optimizationNode.jsscalabilityhigh-traffic systemsdeveloper toolsbest practices
Soft skills
strong communicatorproactivereliableproduct mindsetdeveloper empathypragmaticpositivelow egoautonomousownership-driven
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