Senior Backend Engineer - APIs, AWS & Scalable Systems

Zoom; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoom is hiring a senior software engineer to own and execute backend features and APIs for Common Room. You will build scalable infrastructure, data models, and validation procedures while ensuring reliability.

You will work with AWS, Postgres, Node.js, and React, taking pride in delivering simple, elegant solutions that solve real customer problems. The role emphasizes ownership of large backend projects, collaboration with experienced engineers, and a structured hybrid/remote work model.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Comfortable with AWS, Postgres, and Node.js.
• Proficient with TypeGraphQL for API endpoints and Apollo/Express as web server.
• Experience with React for front-end and AWS infrastructure.
• Good judgement on tradeoffs and durable tooling.

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

6+ years exp

AWS

Postgres

Node.js

TypeGraphQL

React

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Apollo/Express

Postgres (RDS)

ClickHouse

Job description

Zoom is hiring a senior software engineer to own and execute backend features and APIs for Common Room. You will build scalable infrastructure, data models, and validation procedures while ensuring reliability.

You will work with AWS, Postgres, Node.js, and React, taking pride in delivering simple, elegant solutions that solve real customer problems. The role emphasizes ownership of large backend projects, collaboration with experienced engineers, and a structured hybrid/remote work model.