Backend Engineer

Duna; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Duna is a remote-first, fast-moving product company building backend systems and customer-facing features. You’ll join one of our product teams to design, implement, and ship scalable services using modern technologies.

We value ownership, curiosity, and kindness as we work with customers and internal teams. If you enjoy turning problems into solutions and communicating clearly, you’ll fit right in.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years as a backend engineer at a modern tech company.
• Strong ownership and care for your work, with a track record to show for it.
• You enjoy explaining technical concepts to non-engineers.
• You take feedback quickly and turn it into growth.
• Curiosity and big ambitions with kindness.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems that are clean, testable, and efficient.
• Ship customer-facing features as an engineer in one of our product teams.
• Collaborate with Deployment, GTM and customers to bring features to life.
• Automate repeated setup work into product improvements.
• Prioritize testing, quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Shape engineering practices and technical culture.

Skills

Backend engineering

Ownership

Communication

Curiosity

Ambition

Kindness

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

Express

Postgres

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

At Duna, we see the company as the second product we’re building and are continually working to create a transparent, ambitious culture. We want this to be the place where you do your best work.

Our mission is to redefine identity for the global economy. We’re backed by world-class investors including Index Ventures as well as founders and executives from companies like Stripe, Adyen, Notion, Remote, Qonto, Framer, Anthropic, Mollie, OpenAI, Goldman Sachs.

Since your role with us will rarely fit a job description, we only wrote a crisp overview.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING IN THIS ROLE

• Design and build backend systems that are clean, testable, and efficient

• Ship customer-facing features as an engineer in one of our product teams

• Work closely with Deployment, go-to-market teams and our customers to bring them to life

• Turn repeated setup work into product improvements

• Bring care to testing, quality, and long-term maintainability

• Shape our engineering practices and technical culture

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• 3 to 5+ years as a backend engineer at a modern tech company

• High level of ownership and care for your work, with a track record to show for it

• You enjoy working with customers and can explain technical things to people who aren’t engineers

• You take feedback quickly and turn it into growth

• Curiosity

• Big ambitions

• Kindness

Bonus if you’ve worked on AI features and how to evaluate them, or on product analytics.

Our current stack includes Node.js + TypeScript, Event Sourcing, Express, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, AWS. Experience with these is a plus, but not required. We are more excited about how you approach problems and find solutions.

We’re a remote-first, fast-moving team of builders looking for exceptional people who love to create, build, and ship. Beyond passion and grit, we highly value curiosity, authenticity and kindness.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

PS. We are looking to hire passionate people from a variety of backgrounds. So even if you don’t check all the boxes, we welcome your application!