Backend Engineer, Core Sending

Resend

Remote regions

Americas

Salary range

$120,000–$140,000/yr

Benefits

Role Overview:

  • Handle building and maintaining core components for transactional and marketing emails, supporting over 1 million developers, with responsibilities across distributed systems and infrastructure scaling.
  • Focus on high availability, performance tuning, observability, and disaster recovery, ensuring reliability and quick response in production environments.

Qualifications and Fit:

  • Requires 8+ years of back-end engineering with cloud infrastructure focus, fluency in English, and ability to work in Americas timezones consistently.
  • Ideal candidates thrive in open-ended problems, have hands-on experience with large AWS workloads, event-driven systems at scale (e.g., Kafka), and a low-ego, action-oriented mindset.

Culture and Work Environment:

  • Offers autonomy to ship solutions, with a 100% remote team across multiple countries, flexible schedules, and an honest, collaborative culture.
  • Emphasizes ownership of problems and solutions, modern tech stacks, and opportunities for travel to team off-sites, conferences, and meetups.

Resend

Resend is building the modern email sending platform for developers, focusing on quality, craft, and developer experience. It is a fully remote team of about 40 people spanning 11 countries, backed by investors like a16z and Y Combinator, and values honesty, low ego, and autonomy.

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