Backend Engineer

Resend; Brasil; Remote; BRL 697,000 - 896,000; Full time

Job summary

Resend is expanding its core engineering team with a fully remote role spanning the Americas and European time zones. You will own features end to end, design scalable backend services, and contribute to reliable, observable systems that handle traffic spikes and failures.

You should bring 8+ years of production backend experience, strong API design skills, and fluency in English. Occasional travel for team offsites and conferences is expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend services in production.
• Experience with queues, asynchronous processing, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, APIs, relational data models, and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to design systems from scratch and debug production issues with clear tradeoffs.
• Excellent written and spoken English; overlap Americas working hours.

Responsibilities

• Own features end to end, from scoping to APIs, dashboard experiences, and the services behind them.
• Build reliable distributed systems, queues, and background workers that handle spikes, retries, and failures.
• Scale APIs and databases, improving performance, data integrity, and efficiency.
• Operate services with monitoring, safe deployments, and participation in the on-call rotation.
• Work with support and customers to turn recurring problems into product improvements.
• Strengthen tests, tooling, and existing systems while building new capabilities.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud infrastructure

On-call experience

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

Go

PostgreSQL

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Resend is building its core engineering team to support millions of emails sent every day. The role is fully remote in the Americas or European time zones, with occasional travel for team offsites, conferences, and meetups.

In this role, you will Own features end to end, from scoping to APIs, dashboard experiences, and the services behind them. Build reliable distributed systems, queues, and background workers that handle spikes, retries, and failures. Scale APIs and databases, improving performance, data integrity, and efficiency. Operate services with monitoring, safe deployments, and participation in the on-call rotation. Work with support and customers to turn recurring problems into product improvements. Strengthen tests, tooling, and existing systems while building new capabilities.

You will be a great fit if you Have 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating backend services in production. Have experience with queues, asynchronous processing, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, APIs, relational data models, and infrastructure as code. Can design systems from scratch, debug production issues, and communicate tradeoffs clearly. Communicate clearly in written and spoken English and can overlap with Americas working hours.

It is a plus if you have Deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres; AWS; developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure.

What it means to join the team Meaningful ownership, autonomy, high engineering quality, and a collaborative, low-ego team.

Fully remote work with flexibility around shared hours.

Compensation: $140,000–$180,000 USD, commensurate with experience.