Developer Tools Engineer — Remote

United States Digital Space LLC

United States

Remote

USD 130,000 - 160,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Resend is building a modern email sending platform for developers, with a fully remote team and a focus on quality and developer experience. You’ll contribute to backend services, developer tools, and reliable integrations that developers rely on.

Join a global team and help shape APIs, tooling, and documentation while working across time zones. The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and a strong interest in email development space.

Qualifications

  • Have strong backend engineering experience, including building and maintaining APIs or services in production.
  • Proficient in TypeScript and Node.js with a focus on reliability.
  • Knowledge of authentication, authorization, retries, idempotency, rate limits, and partial failures.
  • Experience building software that other developers depend on and maintaining it.
  • Appreciate good interface design, clear errors, and useful documentation.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain developer tools that integrate across languages, frameworks, and environments.
  • Build and operate services supporting developer tools and integrations.
  • Collaborate with product squads on API contracts and consistent behavior across SDKs, CLI, MCP, and docs.
  • Create interfaces developers use to work with the company, such as MCP, skills, and the CLI.
  • Handle compatibility, testing, releases, and upgrades so developers can depend on releases.
  • Develop shared tooling to help other squads ship changes confidently.
  • Work directly with developers through support, GitHub issues, and pull requests.

Skills

Backend engineering
TypeScript
Node.js
APIs
Authentication
Authorization
Error handling
Documentation
Clear ownership
Communication

Tools

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Job description

Resend is building a modern email sending platform for developers, with a fully remote team and a focus on quality and developer experience. You’ll contribute to backend services, developer tools, and reliable integrations that developers rely on.

Join a global team and help shape APIs, tooling, and documentation while working across time zones. The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and a strong interest in email development space.

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