Software Engineer (Back-end)

Americas / Remote / Full-time

Resend is looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join our team and help us scale our platform to send millions of emails every day.

We're a small group of engineers obsessed with developer experience. We love to ship products end-to-end, and want to build a reliable platform for other developers.

In this role you will...

  • Build and enhance backend services that drive user-facing features
  • Optimize database and infrastructure performance to ensure efficient operations
  • Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting to enhance our ability to respond to operational incidents
  • Scale our service through architectural improvements and infrastructure enhancements
  • Iterate with existing components to build the UI and deliver feature completion from end to end

You will be a great fit if you...

  • 5+ years of back-end engineering with a focus on cloud infrastructure
  • Are fluent in writing and speaking English
  • Can consistently work in Americas timezone
  • Have supported large workloads on AWS
  • You love helping other developers
  • Have some experience with front-end

You will be an exceptional fit if you also...

  • Have deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, React (Express, Hono, Next.js)
  • Proven experience with databases and performance tuning (Postgres, Clickhouse)
  • Infrastructure and reliability skills (Datadog, AWS, Terraform, CDK)
  • Experience with observability tools and practices
  • Ability to identify bottlenecks and propose/implement solutions to scale services
  • Solid understanding of distributed services

What it means to join the team:

  • Autonomy to “just ship it”
  • 100% remote team with flexible working schedules
  • Modern tech stack (Next.js, Typescript, Lambdas, Event-Driven Architecture, AWS, etc.)
  • Honest and low-ego team
  • Ownership of problems and solutions

You can see more about our culture at resend.com/about.

How to apply?

Now that you know about us, we would like to learn more about you.