Backend Engineer - Scalable APIs & Cloud Infra (Remote)

Zoom; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoom is seeking a backend-focused engineer to help build scalable APIs and maintain a robust data infrastructure. You will own large backend projects, work with AWS, Postgres, and Node.js, and contribute to ML-driven features in a hybrid/hub environment.

You will collaborate with frontend and experienced engineers, delivering reliable, well-tested code and scalable solutions while balancing tradeoffs and simplicity.

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 API endpoints, Apollo/Express as web server, and Postgres on RDS; React for front-end; AWS for infrastructure.

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

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Postgres

Node.js

TypeGraphQL

Apollo/Express

React

ClickHouse

Postgres on RDS

Job description

Zoom is seeking a backend-focused engineer to help build scalable APIs and maintain a robust data infrastructure. You will own large backend projects, work with AWS, Postgres, and Node.js, and contribute to ML-driven features in a hybrid/hub environment.

You will collaborate with frontend and experienced engineers, delivering reliable, well-tested code and scalable solutions while balancing tradeoffs and simplicity.