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title: 'Backend Engineer at Resend'
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# Backend Engineer at Resend

- **Company:** Resend
- **Location:** Europe
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/resend/6589bee8-3ec9-4620-90b6-890b23464c4d

## Job description

Resend is growing fast, and there are now over 4 million developers using it. We’re building our core team of software engineers to support millions of emails sent every day. We’re a small team that cares deeply about developer experience, reliability, and quality. We’re looking for engineers who enjoy shipping features end-to-end and understand how to build and operate the infrastructure behind them. This role is fully remote based in Americas or European timezones, with some expected travel for team offsites, conferences, meetups, and more. [Read more about how we work, how we hire, and what we value here.](https://resend.com/handbook)

In this role, you will…

- Own features end-to-end, from proposing ideas and scoping projects to building APIs, dashboard experiences, and the services behind them.
- Build reliable distributed systems, including queues and background workers that handle traffic spikes, retries, and failures predictably.
- Scale APIs and databases, improving performance, data integrity, and efficiency as usage grows.
- Operate what you build, with meaningful monitoring, safe deployments, and participation in our [on-call rotation.](https://resend.com/handbook/engineering/how-we-handle-on-call-rotations)
- Work closely with support and customers to understand recurring problems and turn them into product improvements.
- Improve engineering quality, strengthening tests, tooling, and existing systems alongside building new capabilities.

You will be a great fit if you...

- Have 8+ years of software engineering experience, with substantial experience building and operating backend services in production
- Have worked with queues, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems, including retries, duplicate events, concurrency, and partial failures
- Have the ability to design systems from scratch and think through the rollout of those systems
- Understand cloud infrastructure and service operations, including deployments, observability, capacity, and debugging production issues
- Have experience designing APIs and relational data models, diagnosing slow queries, and making safe database changes
- Have experience managing production infrastructure with infrastructure as code, using tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
- Are comfortable working across the stack to deliver a complete product experience
- Take initiative, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and know when to ask for help
- Enjoy helping other developers and care about the details that make software easy to use
- Communicate clearly in written and spoken English and can consistently work with overlap during Americas working hours

You will be an exceptional fit if you also...

- Have deep experience with Node.js, TypeScript, Go, and Postgres
- Have built and operated services on AWS, using serverless or container-based infrastructure
- Have worked on developer tools, public APIs, or email infrastructure

What it means to join the team:

- Meaningful ownership: Help decide what we build and take responsibility for how it works
- Autonomy: Make decisions, propose improvements, and move work forward
- A high bar for quality: Care about everything from API behavior to how a service recovers from failure
- A collaborative, low-ego team: Give honest feedback, share knowledge, and help each other grow
- Remote work: Work with a fully remote team, with flexibility around shared working hours
- Comp: $140,000 - $180,000 USD, commensurate with location and experience

## About Resend

We are building the modern email sending platform for developers. We care deeply about quality, craft, and the developer experience. Our fully remote team of 50 spans 15 countries and counting. We're backed by a16z, Y Combinator, and others. [Meet the humans →](https://resend.com/humans)

## About Resend

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Resend provides a modern email API for developers to build, test, and send transactional and marketing emails at scale.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Zeno Rocha (CEO), Bu Kinoshita (CTO), Jonni Lundy

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Developer tools / Email infrastructure (Communication API)
- Target customers: B2B, primarily developers and engineering teams at startups, SMBs, and enterprises
- Mission statement: Reimagine email for the modern web — building the best communication platform for developers

## Products & Services
- **Email API**: A RESTful API for sending transactional and marketing emails at scale, with SDKs for Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java, Laravel, Rust, and .NET.
- **React Email (open source)**: A library (5.1k+ GitHub stars) that lets developers code email templates using React components instead of outdated HTML layouts.
- **Resend CLI**: Command-line tool for sending emails directly from the terminal.
- **Deliverability Engine**: Infrastructure focused on inbox placement and avoiding spam folders, backed by SOC 2 compliance and GDPR adherence.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Total Funding**: $18M Series A (announced December 4, 2024)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — $18M Series A
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2023 batch), with backing from "incredible investors" including Diana Hu (YC primary partner)
- **Growth Signals**: Launched in 2023, grew to 45 team members as of mid-2025; Y Combinator backing; open source community traction (React Email); challenger brand in a market dominated by SendGrid, AWS SES, and Postmark

## Competitive Advantages
- **Developer-first experience**: React-based email components, modern API design, and extensive SDK support set them apart from legacy providers.
- **Open source community**: React Email has strong adoption (5.1k+ stars) and creates a natural pipeline to the paid API.
- **Deliverability focus**: Deep investment in inbox placement technology, a known pain point for developers.
- **Challenger mindset**: Actively rethinking email infrastructure from scratch, not just copying incumbents.

## Strategic Focus
- **Default to action**: Company culture emphasizes shipping fast, iterating quickly, and taking initiative without permission.
- **Remote-first**: Fully remote company with async communication, two annual offsites, and timezone overlap within the Americas.
- **Quality obsession**: Focus on craft, attention to detail, and delighting developers — challenging the "good enough" status quo in email.
- **Growth stage**: Post-Series A, actively hiring across engineering (Backend, Security, Product, Deliverability) to scale the platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Fully remote with async communication, no plans for mandatory offices. Two annual in-person retreats.
- **Engineering philosophy**: "Default to action" — makers ship PRs, not wait for permission. Emphasis on speed, iteration, and quality.
- **Benefits (Global)**: 20 PTO days/year, 12-week family leave, unlimited sick days, 10 holidays/year (choose US or local), $2,000 home office allowance, annual retreat.
- **Benefits (US-only)**: 100% employee / 90% family health/dental/vision coverage, 401K account (no matching), life insurance.
- **Team size**: ~45 people (as of mid-2025) — early-stage energy with significant traction.
- **Culture values**: No ego, confident curiosity, challenge the status quo, use resources available — documented in a public handbook.

## Sources
1. [resend.com](https://resend.com/)
2. [resend.com/about](https://resend.com/about)
3. [resend.com/careers](https://resend.com/careers)
4. [resend.com/handbook/people/how-we-work](https://www.resend.com/handbook/people/how-we-work)
5. [ycombinator.com/companies/resend](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/resend)

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