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Salary: USD 140,000 - 180,000 / annual
Resend is a modern email sending platform for developers, with over 4 million developers using the platform. The company is a fully remote team of 50 spanning 15 countries, backed by a16z and Y Combinator.
In this role, you will own features end-to-end, from proposing ideas and scoping projects to building APIs, dashboard experiences, and the services behind them. You'll build reliable distributed systems, including queues and background workers that handle traffic spikes, retries, and failures predictably. You'll scale APIs and databases, improving performance, data integrity, and efficiency as usage grows. You'll operate what you build with meaningful monitoring, safe deployments, and participation in the on-call rotation. You'll work closely with support and customers to understand recurring problems and turn them into product improvements, and improve engineering quality by strengthening tests, tooling, and existing systems alongside building new capabilities.
The team cares deeply about developer experience, reliability, and quality. You'll work with a collaborative, low-ego team that values meaningful ownership, autonomy, and a high bar for quality. Some travel is expected for team offsites, conferences, and meetups.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with substantial experience building and operating backend services in production
- Worked with queues, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems, including retries, duplicate events, concurrency, and partial failures
- Ability to design systems from scratch and think through rollout of those systems
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure and service operations, including deployments, observability, capacity, and debugging production issues
- Experience designing APIs and relational data models, diagnosing slow queries, and making safe database changes
- Experience managing production infrastructure with infrastructure as code (Terraform or AWS CDK)
- Comfortable working across the stack to deliver complete product experience
- Take initiative, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and know when to ask for help
- Enjoy helping other developers and care about details that make software easy to use
- Clear communication in written and spoken English with ability to work with overlap during Americas working hours
EXCEPTIONAL FIT IF YOU ALSO HAVE:
- Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres
- Built and operated services on AWS using serverless or container-based infrastructure
- Worked on developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure
