Senior Backend Engineer for AI-Driven Manufacturing (Remote)

Frontdoor Defense; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

MISUMI Americas is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale backend services powering an AI-driven manufacturing platform. The role focuses on costing, pricing, lead time, and DFM for instant quoting, with an emphasis on reliability and AI-driven development.

Location is West Coast-based with remote eligibility; final-round in-person interviews will be held in Oakland or Portland. You will collaborate across product, frontend, and infrastructure teams while shaping AI-driven

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Proficient in Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with AWS services (SQS, Lambda, EC2, RDS).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Experience designing and maintaining REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Commitment to unit and integration tests.
• Knowledge of security best practices (OWASP Top 10).
• Hands-on experience shipping production code with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot).
• Strong code review skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop highly available, scalable backend services in AWS.
• Build and maintain event-driven, asynchronous systems using Node.js.
• Create robust APIs (REST / GraphQL) powering customer-facing and internal tools.
• Use AI coding agents to take features from design through implementation and testing, while owning the correctness of every change.
• Write specs, tests, and repo context that make agent-driven development reliable in a large, established codebase.
• Partner with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to ship features that move the business.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and drive best practices across the team.
• Help shape how the team works with AI: sharing patterns, tooling, and lessons learned.
• Debug production issues and improve system reliability.
• Continuously improve code quality through testing, observability, and documentation.

Skills

5+ years backend engineering

Node.js

JavaScript/TypeScript

AWS (SQS, Lambda, EC2, RDS)

distributed systems

REST/GraphQL APIs

SQL/NoSQL databases

unit/integration tests

AI coding agents usage

code review

US citizenship or green card

Job description

MISUMI Americas is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale backend services powering an AI-driven manufacturing platform. The role focuses on costing, pricing, lead time, and DFM for instant quoting, with an emphasis on reliability and AI-driven development.

Location is West Coast-based with remote eligibility; final-round in-person interviews will be held in Oakland or Portland. You will collaborate across product, frontend, and infrastructure teams while shaping AI-driven