Staff Backend Engineer

• 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.

Nango (YC W23) is a developer infrastructure company and the leading provider of API access for agents and apps. It enables AI applications to connect to the real world through integrations.

We are hiring Senior & Staff Backend Engineers to join the core engineering team building Nango's platform and developer infrastructure. This is a critical role at the heart of the company: as a product-led business selling to developers, our engineers directly drive the product roadmap, specifications, and execution. You will own core systems end-to-end, from ideation and design to implementation and close collaboration with developer customers, shaping both the platform and how Nango evolves.

• 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.

• Based in North America, LATAM or Europe.

(Remote - North America, LATAM or Europe)

If you're a seasoned backend engineer who loves developer infrastructure, thrives on ownership, and wants to shape the future of integrations - we'd love to hear from you.