Backend Engineer - Remote, Scalable APIs & Infra

Zoom; Lansing (MI); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoom is seeking a backend-focused engineer to help build and scale core infrastructure, data models, and APIs. You will own significant backend projects, ensuring reliability and performance across AWS, Postgres (RDS), and ClickHouse, while collaborating with frontend teams using React.

We value strong problem-solving, clear communication, and thoughtful tooling choices. This hybrid role blends office and remote work across US locations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Hold a Bachelor's or equivalent experience.
• Be comfortable working with AWS, Postgres, and Node.js.
• Able to use TypeGraphQL for our API endpoints, Apollo/Express as our web server, and Postgres(hosted on RDS) + ClickHouse as our database. We use React for front-end, and AWS for our infrastructure needs.
• Able to take pride in the craft and is excited to own large projects, primarily in the backend domain.
• Communicate effectively with experienced engineers, including application and front-end engineers.
• Demonstrate a good judgement on tradeoffs and tooling, avoiding over-indexing on trendy technology - preferring supported, stable solutions.
• Use customer problems as input into system design, finding joy in creating simple, elegant solutions.

Responsibilities

• Developing infrastructure, data models, features, and the overall system to build APIs, and maintain the codebase to resolve customer issues.
• Writing well-designed, testable code, ensuring systems are efficient, optimized, scalable, and reliable.
• Developing software testing and validation procedures and documentation.
• Ensuring Common Room's core internal capabilities, infrastructure, and ML systems serve the needs of customers and our team.
• Analyzing, problem-solve, and design systems and simple, elegant solutions while considering observability, SLA, and scalability.

Skills

Software engineering

Bachelor's degree

AWS

Postgres

Node.js

TypeGraphQL

Apollo/Express

ClickHouse

React

Backend development

Communication

Tooling judgment

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Postgres (RDS)

ClickHouse

Node.js

Express

React

Job description

Zoom is seeking a backend-focused engineer to help build and scale core infrastructure, data models, and APIs. You will own significant backend projects, ensuring reliability and performance across AWS, Postgres (RDS), and ClickHouse, while collaborating with frontend teams using React.

We value strong problem-solving, clear communication, and thoughtful tooling choices. This hybrid role blends office and remote work across US locations.