[Remote] Backend Engineer (TypeScript)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wynd Labs builds web data infrastructure, including a distributed crawler and data pipelines that support companies training advanced AI models. The Backend Engineer will develop TypeScript backend systems, improve observability and deployment processes, maintain production reliability, and enhance the existing codebase through testing and troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
- Build and improve backend code primarily in TypeScript
- Set up and maintain metrics dashboards for production systems
- Update existing code to support new metrics and improve system observability
- Set up alerts and work closely with DevOps to optimize production systems
- Automate deployments and operational reporting to Slack
- Test systems in production, identify and troubleshoot issues, and fix bugs
- Help clean up and improve the existing codebase
- Write and maintain automated tests
- Improve and optimize deployment processes
- Implement code enhancements as new requirements emerge
Skills
- • Acts with integrity and seeks out responsibility
- • Demonstrates resilience, resourcefulness, and motivation for getting things done
- • Organized and process-driven
- • Approaches challenges as opportunities
- • Curious and challenges personal assumptions regularly
- • Welcomes feedback and open dialogue
- • Values team success over personal recognition
- • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- • 2+ years of experience in a backend software engineering role
- • Solid TypeScript development skills and strong backend software engineering fundamentals
- • Good understanding of metrics, monitoring, and alerting, with the ability to debug and troubleshoot production systems
- • Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and make reliable improvements to existing systems
- • Experience with Go
- • Experience with Datadog, OpenObserve, and/or building Slack bots or integrations
- • Familiarity with web scraping and browser automation, including Playwright
Benefits
- Benefits and equity package
- Fully remote team
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