Senior Backend Engineer (Europe)

triggerdev; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office equipment support

Annual training budget

Company pension contributions

Equity

Job summary

triggerdev is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to shape and grow both open source and cloud versions of a platform that runs production AI agents and workflows. The role blends hands-on engineering with strategic influence on architecture and roadmap.

You will design end-to-end backend features, craft scalable data schemas, and optimize performance for high-throughput production workloads, while upholding security and observability standards.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript.
• Strong background with Postgres and Redis, including schema design and query tuning.
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Comfort participating in an on-call rotation as part of shared reliability ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship SDK and platform features end-to-end, from API surface through production rollout.
• Develop database schemas and data models that hold up as usage scales.
• Tune query performance and shape efficient data access patterns.
• Build backend systems that meet production standards for reliability, throughput, and durability.
• Design and implement API endpoints and services that handle real customer traffic.
• Apply security best practices as a default in every piece of work shipped.
• Implement observability tooling for monitoring, logging, and rapid debugging.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help shape where the platform goes next.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Redis

Schema design

Query tuning

Production operations

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Role overview

A senior backend engineer is needed to help shape and grow both the open source and cloud versions of a platform used to run production AI agents and workflows. The managed cloud service auto-scales customer code from zero to high throughput, currently handling hundreds of millions of monthly executions for thousands of teams building AI applications. This is a high-impact role that blends hands-on engineering with strategic influence on architecture and roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship SDK and platform features end-to-end, from API surface through production rollout
• Develop database schemas and data models that hold up as usage scales
• Tune query performance and shape efficient data access patterns
• Build backend systems that meet production standards for reliability, throughput, and durability
• Design and implement API endpoints and services that handle real customer traffic
• Apply security best practices as a default in every piece of work shipped
• Implement observability tooling for monitoring, logging, and rapid debugging
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help shape where the platform goes next

Requirements

• Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript
• Strong background with Postgres and Redis, including schema design, query tuning, and production operation
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Comfort participating in an on-call rotation as part of shared reliability ownership
• Willingness to attend in-person team events throughout the year

Nice to have

• Proven track record of contributing to open source projects
• Prior experience founding a venture-backed startup
• Familiarity with React, ideally Remix
• Background designing developer-facing SDKs
• Work on high-throughput systems at scale
• Self-managed Kubernetes experience
• Linux fluency
• OpenTelemetry or broader observability tooling experience
• Background at a developer tools company
• Go programming experience

Benefits and work setup

• Transparent, location-based compensation plus equity
• Async working style with room for heads-down, meeting-free time
• Home office equipment support
• Roughly 25 days of vacation plus national holidays, sick leave, and generous parental leave
• Annual training budget for books, audio subscriptions, or online courses
• Company pension or private pension contributions
• Small, flat-hierarchy team that values autonomy, continuous learning, and customer focus