# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Edia](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/edia)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $180k – $250k/yr
**Skills:** Node.js, AWS, React, Containers, managed databases, Debugging, ai coding assistants
**Posted:** 2026-02-03

> Senior Backend Engineer directs AI tools to build and scale Node.js applications on AWS, reviews/debugs AI-generated code, and ships full-stack features across products for K-12 education.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

- Architect and oversee backend systems across our product lineup and internal tooling
- Guide AI coding assistants to implement large-scale changes and new features
- Review, debug, and refine AI-generated code to production standards
- Use AI internally to automate business operations
- Ship full-stack features end-to-end

## What We're Looking For

**Essential skills:**
- Fast at reading code, human or AI generated
- Strong debugging skills and an eye for bugs
- Capacity to envision large architectural changes and break them into steps an AI can execute
- Ability to context switch and juggle multiple in flight tasks
- Experience with Node.js and cloud infrastructure (AWS, containers, managed databases)
- Comfort working across multiple codebases and problem domains

**What sets you apart:**
- You think at systems scale
- You're effective at communicating intent to AI tools and iterating on their output
- You have good judgment about when to accept AI suggestions and when to push back
- You're comfortable with ambiguity and can take ownership of loosely-defined problems

**Nice to have:**
- Frontend experience (React)—you'll be reading it regardless
- Startup experience

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