Job Title: Backend Engineer

Company Name: Make

Job Url: https://make.recruitee.com/o/backend-engineer

Job Description: Backend Engineer
Remote
Dallas, Texas, United States
Engineering
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Job description
📍 Location: Remote (Work from Anywhere)

🗓️ Date: The expected start window for this position is as soon as possible

⏰ Working Hours: You should overlap with Central Time Zone at least 2 hours a day, and be available to attend several weekly video meetings within that time zone

Are you a Backend Engineer looking to craft large-scale software that drives business growth and users love?

😀 At Make, we're proud to have created award-winning software that's been used by billions of people, with 25+ featured placements in the App Store and Google Play. Our clients have real end users and real challenges, and they view us as trusted advisors and thought leaders. Beyond APIs and pull requests, this role is about owning backend systems end to end, building them thoughtfully, keeping them reliable as they scale, and collaborating closely with a remote team in an AI-first engineering environment.

If you have a genuine enthusiasm for software, and thrive in environments that encourage creativity, self-management, and a strong focus on culture, we want to hear from you! 💯

Job requirements
What You'll Do
Join a team of AI-first engineers

Build and maintain backend services using Node.js and TypeScript

Implement APIs and business logic based on product and technical requirements.

Write clean, readable, and well-tested code.

Use AI tools daily to streamline development, debugging, refactoring, and documentation workflows without compromising quality

Work closely with other engineers in a remote-first environment, proactively communicating progress, blockers, and risks

Identify issues proactively, spotting bugs, performance bottlenecks, or architectural risks early and taking ownership of solutions.


What You’ll Bring
An AI-first mindset

Hands-on experience using Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex

Hands-on experience building at least one large-scale backend system from scratch

Experience integrating 3rd party services into a system architecture

+5 years of backend experience

+2 years of Node.js experience

Excellent communication skills and comfort working in an asynchronous, remote environment

A proactive, ownership-driven mindset: you see problems, raise them early, and help solve them

Comfort operating in a 100% operational role, managing priorities and complexity independently

Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)
Serverless experience with Firestore Cloud Functions (or AWS Lambdas)

Microservices experience

Experience working at a custom software agency like Make