Staff Backend Engineer - Remote

Overview

At Nango (YC W23), we’re building an open-source platform to power product integrations. It’s a developer tool built by engineers, for engineers, making it seamless to connect B2B software, natively.

We are looking for a staff backend engineer who wants to have a profound impact on other developers' lives by shaping the future of product integrations.

By joining us, you’ll work closely with our founders, early engineers, and customers across all facets of our startup. You’ll be part of a well-funded, high-velocity, seed-stage startup where ownership and impact are key.

We are backed by YC, Horizon VC, and executives from Cloudflare, Retool, Notion, Calendly, and Sendbird. We serve 400+ companies with fast-growing revenues.

Learn more about jobs at Nango, our team, and what we shipped lately.

In Short

• Develop our open-source platform to accelerate product integrations by 10x.
• Design and build scalable backend systems, APIs, and services that power our platform.
• Collaborate with customers (B2B SaaS engineering teams) to build tooling and integrations that make their lives easier.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability of our backend services.
• Shape the product and company strategy, actively participating in key decisions.
• Own and maintain our open-source repository, engaging with the developer community.
• Drive engineering best practices and make key technology decisions.
• Develop startup acumen and gain hands-on experience in building a dev-tool startup from the ground up.

Requirements

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Experience with Node.js.
• Strong work ethic & sense of ownership.
• Great organizational skills to track and fulfill customer requests.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with customers and team members in a remote setting.
• Product mindset & developer empathy—instinctively optimize for Developer Experience (DX).
• Ability to write high-quality code—readable, structured, documented, reliable, performant.
• Fluency in English (written & spoken).
• Experience in a startup, dev tool, US and/or remote companies.

Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.
• Opportunity to shape the future of product integrations.
• Work closely with founders and early engineers.
• Impactful role in a high-velocity startup.
• Engagement with the developer community.