Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nango is a developer infrastructure company that provides API access and integrations for AI applications. The Staff Backend Engineer will build and scale Nango’s platform, APIs, services, developer interfaces, and runtime while owning systems end-to-end. The role also involves collaborating with customers, shaping product strategy, optimizing reliability, and engaging with the open-source community.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- • 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
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement — remote across North America, LATAM or Europe
- Remote-first work environment
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