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HUMAN (formerly clean.io) is seeking a Backend Engineer to join the Enforcers team, which builds the integration and enforcement layer for HUMAN's Application Protection platform. The platform safeguards online businesses from sophisticated bots, fraud, and abuse by connecting customer traffic to real-time detection systems and applying protection decisions within customer environments.
In this role, you will design, build, and maintain backend and edge components that integrate HUMAN's detection and enforcement capabilities into diverse customer environments. You'll develop reliable, secure, and maintainable services and SDKs primarily using JavaScript and TypeScript, with components running across CDNs, cloud platforms, serverless environments, web servers, and application frameworks.
Key responsibilities include owning the full software lifecycle from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. You'll optimize performance and reliability for latency-sensitive components operating directly in the request path, solve portability and integration challenges across different platforms and runtimes, and collaborate with Product, Security Research, Customer Success Engineering, and other Engineering teams.
You should have 4+ years of hands-on software development experience with a focus on backend or platform engineering. Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript with production Node.js experience is required. You'll need solid understanding of backend engineering fundamentals, HTTP-based services, APIs, and web infrastructure, along with strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Nice-to-have qualifications include experience with CDNs (Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, AWS CloudFront), cloud/serverless/edge computing, additional languages (Go, Rust, C, C++), HTTP/networking/reverse proxies/NGINX/Kubernetes, SDK/developer tool development, cybersecurity/bot mitigation background, and AI-assisted development tools.
HUMAN was founded with a mission to make the internet safer by putting humans first. The company verifies the humanity of over 20 trillion interactions weekly for major global brands. Based in NYC with teams worldwide, HUMAN offers comprehensive total rewards including well-being stipends, learning opportunities, and flexible work options.
