# Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Nango](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nango)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $120k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, APIs, Databases, Developer Tools, Backend Systems
**Posted:** 2026-06-04

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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