Software Engineer (Back-end)

Resend is looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join our team and help us scale our platform to send millions of emails every day.

We’re a small group of engineers obsessed with developer experience. We love to ship products end-to-end and want to build a reliable platform for other developers.

In this role you will...

• Build and enhance backend services that drive user-facing features

• Optimize database and infrastructure performance to ensure smooth and efficient operations

• Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting to enhance our ability to respond to operational incidents

• Scale our service through architectural improvements and infrastructure enhancements

• Iterate with our existing components to build the UI to deliver feature completion from end to end

You will be a perfect fit if you...

• 5+ years of back-end engineering with a focus on cloud infrastructure

• Are fluent in writing and speaking English

• Can consistently work in Americas timezone

• Have supported large workloads on AWS

• You love helping other developers

• Have experience with front-end

You will be an exceptional fit if you also...

• Have deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, React (Express, Hono, Next.js)

• Proven experience with databases and performance tuning (Postgres, Clickhouse)

• Infrastructure and reliability skills (Datadog, AWS, Terraform, CDK)

• Experience with observability tools and practices

• Ability to identify bottlenecks and propose/implement solutions to scale services

• Solid understanding of distributed services

What it means to join the team:

• Autonomy to “just ship it”

• 100% remote team with flexible working schedules

• Modern tech stack (Next.js, Raycast, Retool, Notion, etc.)

• Honest and low-ego team

• Ownership of problems and solutions