Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js / AWS) – Remote-friendly

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

West Coast remote options

In-person final rounds

Job summary

MISUMI Americas is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js / AWS) to design and scale backend services for our global manufacturing platform. Based in Oakland, CA or Portland, OR with remote options in CA/OR/WA, you will own critical services and APIs powering engineers and procurement teams.

You will build event-driven systems in AWS, craft REST/GraphQL APIs, and collaborate across product, frontend, and infra teams to ship business-moving features.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Experience with Node.js and AWS.
• Experience designing REST/GraphQL APIs.
• U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.

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.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and infra teams to ship features that move the business.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and drive best practices.
• Debug production issues and improve system reliability.
• Continuously improve code quality through testing, observability, and documentation.

Skills

Node.js

JavaScript/TypeScript

AWS

REST/GraphQL APIs

Distributed systems

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

MISUMI Americas is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js / AWS) to design and scale backend services for our global manufacturing platform. Based in Oakland, CA or Portland, OR with remote options in CA/OR/WA, you will own critical services and APIs powering engineers and procurement teams.

You will build event-driven systems in AWS, craft REST/GraphQL APIs, and collaborate across product, frontend, and infra teams to ship business-moving features.