Backend Engineer at Resend — Remote Software Engineering Job Paying $140,000–$180,000

About the role

Resend is building an email delivery platform that helps developers send emails from their applications and services. With more than four million developers using its platform, the company is expanding its engineering team to support growing email volumes while maintaining reliability, quality and a strong developer experience.

The company is looking for a Backend Engineer who can take ownership of features from the initial idea through design, development, deployment and ongoing operation.

You will build APIs, dashboard experiences, backend services and distributed systems that handle traffic spikes, retries, background processing and failures. You will also help scale databases, improve system performance and work with customer-facing teams to identify recurring problems and turn them into product improvements.

This position suits an experienced engineer who enjoys designing systems from scratch, making thoughtful architectural decisions and operating the software they build.

Responsibilities

• Own features from initial planning and technical design through implementation, deployment and maintenance.
• Build and operate reliable distributed systems, including queues and background workers.
• Design systems that handle traffic spikes, retries, duplicate events, concurrency and partial failures.
• Develop and scale APIs, improve database performance and maintain data integrity.
• Design relational database models, investigate slow queries and make safe database changes.
• Manage production infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Implement monitoring, observability and safe deployment processes.
• Participate in the engineering on-call rotation and investigate production incidents.
• Work with customer support and users to understand recurring issues and improve the product.
• Improve automated testing, engineering tools, existing systems and development practices.
• Collaborate with other engineers, share knowledge and help maintain a high standard of software quality.

Requirements

Applicants should demonstrate the following qualifications and experience:

• At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Substantial experience building and operating backend services in production environments.
• Practical experience with queues, asynchronous processing and distributed systems.
• Understanding of retries, duplicate events, concurrency, partial failures and reliable background processing.
• Ability to design new systems from scratch and plan their rollout safely.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, deployments, observability, capacity planning and production troubleshooting.
• Experience designing APIs and relational data models.
• Ability to diagnose database performance problems and implement safe schema changes.
• Experience managing production infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Comfort working across the stack to deliver complete product experiences.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly.
• Willingness to help other developers and take ownership of engineering problems.
• Clear written and spoken English.
• Ability to maintain working-hour overlap with the Americas team.

Additional advantages

Candidates may have an advantage if they also possess:

• Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go and PostgreSQL.
• Experience operating production services on AWS.
• Knowledge of serverless or container-based infrastructure.
• Experience building developer tools, public APIs or email infrastructure.

The role does not state a specific university degree or certification requirement.

Benefits

Resend highlights the following working arrangements and professional opportunities:

• Competitive compensation: US$140,000–US$180,000 annually, depending on location and experience.
• Remote work: Work with a fully remote engineering team.
• Meaningful ownership: Help decide what the team builds and take responsibility for how the systems perform.
• Autonomy: Make technical decisions, propose improvements and move projects forward.
• Engineering quality: Work on systems where reliability, API behaviour and failure recovery matter.
• Collaborative culture: Join a team that values honest feedback, shared learning and low-ego collaboration.
• Team events: Travel may be required for off-sites, conferences and meetups.

The vacancy does not provide a detailed list of healthcare, pension or other employee benefits, so applicants should confirm the applicable package during recruitment.

How to apply

Applications are submitted online through Resend's official careers page.

1. Open the vacancy: https://resend.com/careers/6589bee8-3ec9-4620-90b6-890b23464c4d
2. Prepare your CV or résumé: Highlight your experience building and operating production backend systems, distributed services, APIs and databases.
3. Explain why you want to join Resend: Describe your interest in the company and the experience you would bring to its engineering team.
4. Describe a system you built and operated in production: Explain the problem it solved, what you personally owned, what you learned as the system grew, and how you handled failures or other challenges.
5. Provide your professional links: The application asks for your GitHub username or URL and LinkedIn profile. Twitter/X and a portfolio or personal website are optional.
6. Answer the location questions accurately: State the country where you are physically based and indicate whether you are in a European time zone.
7. Submit the application: Complete the required fields and submit them through the official portal.

Important for Nigerian and other African applicants: Although the position is remote, Resend specifically asks whether applicants are in a European time zone and requires overlap with Americas working hours. Do not assume that the vacancy is open worldwide. State your actual country and confirm that Resend accepts applications from your location.

Official application link: https://resend.com/careers/6589bee8-3ec9-4620-90b6-890b23464c4d