Senior Backend Engineer - Remote API & Data Infrastructure

Zoom; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoom is seeking a Software Engineer on our platform team to own complete features, delivering reliable APIs and data infrastructure that shape the customer experience. You will focus on scalability, observability, and performance while collaborating with experienced application and front-end engineers to translate customer problems into clean, maintainable designs.

You will also contribute to high-quality code, testing, and documentation, owning core infrastructure and ML systems to serve

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering,Backend systems and API development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Solid hands-on experience with AWS, Postgres, and Node.js, including production deployment and operations.

Responsibilities

• Design and build infrastructure, data models, and APIs that power core platform features at scale.
• Ship well-designed, testable code with focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Build and maintain software testing, validation procedures, and technical documentation.

Skills

Backend systems

API development

System design

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Node.js

TypeGraphQL

Apollo/Express

React

RDS

ClickHouse

Job description

Zoom is seeking a Software Engineer on our platform team to own complete features, delivering reliable APIs and data infrastructure that shape the customer experience. You will focus on scalability, observability, and performance while collaborating with experienced application and front-end engineers to translate customer problems into clean, maintainable designs.

You will also contribute to high-quality code, testing, and documentation, owning core infrastructure and ML systems to serve