Backend Engineer
United States
Full-time
3 weeks ago
No H1B
Key skills
Node.jsTypeScriptBackend system designAI tools usage3rd party service integrationMicroservicesProactive mindsetcommunicationAIAWSServerlessCloud FunctionsCommunication
About this role
Make is a design and engineering agency that creates award-winning software used by billions. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to build and maintain backend services, implement APIs, and collaborate with a remote team in an AI-first environment.
Responsibilities:
- Join a team of AI-first engineers
- Build and maintain backend services using Node.js and TypeScript
- Implement APIs and business logic based on product and technical requirements
- Write clean, readable, and well-tested code
- Use AI tools daily to streamline development, debugging, refactoring, and documentation workflows without compromising quality
- Work closely with other engineers in a remote-first environment, proactively communicating progress, blockers, and risks
- Identify issues proactively, spotting bugs, performance bottlenecks, or architectural risks early and taking ownership of solutions
Requirements:
- An AI-first mindset
- Hands-on experience using Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex
- Hands-on experience building at least one large-scale backend system from scratch
- Experience integrating 3rd party services into a system architecture
- +5 years of backend experience
- +2 years of Node.js experience
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working in an asynchronous, remote environment
- A proactive, ownership-driven mindset: you see problems, raise them early, and help solve them
- Comfort operating in a 100% operational role, managing priorities and complexity independently
- Serverless experience with Firestore Cloud Functions (or AWS Lambdas)
- Microservices experience
- Experience working at a custom software agency like Make