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NangoNangoUnited States

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.

120k – 200k
Remote10+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

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.jsAPIsDatabasesDeveloper ToolsBackend Systems

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