Staff Backend Engineer - Scale APIs & DX (Remote)

nango; Concord (NH); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nango is hiring Senior & Staff Backend Engineers to join the core engineering team building our platform and developer infrastructure. You will own core systems end-to-end, from ideation and design to implementation, collaborating with developer customers to shape the product and roadmap.

This remote-first role targets developers who thrive on ownership, scaling high-traffic services, and contributing to an open-source style platform. North America, LATAM or Europe candidates welcome.

Qualifications

• 5+ years (senior-level) or 10+ years (staff-level) of backend engineering experience, with proven ability to scale high-traffic systems.
• Deep experience with developer infrastructure, APIs, databases, and performance-critical systems.
• Passion for developer tools, best practices, and building outstanding DX.
• Comfortable with Node.js and modern backend stacks.
• Strong communicator, proactive, and reliable in a remote-first environment.
• Product mindset and developer empathy: you optimize for DX.
• Pragmatic, positive, and low ego: you step up in incidents and unblock teammates.
• Startup-ready: autonomous, ownership-driven, and able to navigate ambiguity.
• Based in North America, LATAM or Europe.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale backend systems, APIs, and services for our open-source platform.
• Build world-class developer interfaces: APIs, SDKs, UIs, and a runtime that delights developers.
• Collaborate directly with customers to solve integration challenges.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability across backend services.
• Shape the roadmap and company strategy with high ownership of key decisions.
• Engage with the open-source community, owning and maintaining our repo.

Skills

Backend engineering

APIs

Node.js

Developer infrastructure

Systems scaling

DX / developer experience

Remote collaboration

Open-source engagement

Tools

APIs

Job description

Nango is hiring Senior & Staff Backend Engineers to join the core engineering team building our platform and developer infrastructure. You will own core systems end-to-end, from ideation and design to implementation, collaborating with developer customers to shape the product and roadmap.

This remote-first role targets developers who thrive on ownership, scaling high-traffic services, and contributing to an open-source style platform. North America, LATAM or Europe candidates welcome.