Backend Engineer
Nango is seeking Senior & Staff Backend Engineers to design and scale backend systems, APIs, and services for their open-source platform. This role involves collaborating with customers, optimizing performance, and shaping the product roadmap.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- 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.
Who you are
- 5+ years (senior-level) or 10+ years (staff-level) 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.
- Based in North America, LATAM or Europe.
Skills
Node.js, APIs, Databases, Developer Tools, Backend Systems
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