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title: 'Senior Backend Software Engineer - Node.js/TypeScript at Makai Labs'
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# Senior Backend Software Engineer - Node.js/TypeScript at Makai Labs

- **Company:** Makai Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $120k–$150k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/makai-labs/badf8c3f-3118-438b-8fec-f595f3f5f552

## Job description

## ABOUT MAKAI

Makai uses best-in-class AI and data to solve real-world operational and strategic challenges at scale. We help businesses with enterprise automation, human-machine teaming, product design and development, and market intelligence. Until now, people have had to learn and adapt to software. Makai creates solutions that adapt to people because technology will never be 100% accurate. People are essential for all of our human-machine teaming solutions.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a full-time remote role for a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Makai. This person will be responsible for backend app development and will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement innovative solutions that enhance user experiences and drive business outcomes.

## THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL BE ABLE TO

- Develop new features across our Node.js/TypeScript backend services
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
- Collaborate with frontend developers and product designers to improve usability
- Write robust, clean, and documented code
- Maintain and enhance existing applications
- Conduct performance tests and ensure responsiveness and stability across all platforms

## QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with Node.js and TypeScript required
- 7+ years of professional backend software engineering experience, including strong, current, hands-on experience building and running production services
- Experience building and running software in a regulated, compliance-heavy environment (e.g., healthcare and PHI, HIPAA, SOC 2, or HITRUST), with the access-control, audit-logging, and data-handling discipline that implies
- Proven ability to pick up new frameworks and tools quickly, and to reason about systems rather than rely on familiarity with a single specific stack
- Strong command of relational data modeling and an ORM, and of structured request/schema validation as a general practice
- Relevant experience using Docker
- Understanding of microservices architecture and related patterns
- Solid software engineering skills, with the ability to produce well-structured, maintainable code
- Familiarity with modern authorization mechanisms
- Solid experience working from a fully remote position

## NICE-TO-HAVES

- Experience with a Node.js application framework such as NestJS, Express, or Fastify
- Cloud-native experience on Azure, particularly containers and Kubernetes (AKS)
- Workflow orchestration with Temporal or a comparable durable-execution runtime
- Multi-tenant SaaS architecture: tenant isolation, row-level security, and attribute-based access control (ABAC)
- Legacy modernization or migration experience, carrying a live production system onto a new platform

## HOW WE WORK

Small senior teams, real ownership. We'd rather have one engineer who understands a platform top to bottom than several who each own a slice.

## CORE VALUES FOR MAKAI EMPLOYEES

- Be a flexible, innovative and creative thinker
- Be congenial and a team player
- Be self-sufficient
- Be self-driven with an ownership mentality
- Have a strong work ethic

Employment Type Full Time

- Fully remote role

## Benefits

- Fully remote role, Eastern time zone
- Opportunities to work in-person with local colleagues
- Generous PTO
- Full health insurance premium reimbursement
- 401(k) matching
- Career growth & development opportunities

## About Makai Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Makai Labs develops AI-enabled process automation solutions that adapt to people, helping enterprises automate repetitive tasks and make smarter decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; no disclosed funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Founded by MIT alumni (specific founder names not publicly listed; leadership includes CEO Joseph Kim, CTO Adrian Ghiuta)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / Process Automation
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to large enterprises across industries (healthcare, finance, logistics, etc.)
- **Mission**: “Workforce enablement, not employee replacement” – building human-machine teaming solutions that improve work quality while keeping people as the final check.

## Products & Services
- **Enterprise Automation**: End-to-end automation services to streamline business operations, integrating various systems and processes.
- **Robotic Process Automation (RPA)**: Automation of high-volume, rule-based tasks using software robots.
- **Natural Language Processing (NLP)**: Textual analysis and data extraction from unstructured documents.
- **Application Development**: Custom applications tailored to specific business needs.
- **Computer Vision**: Image and video analysis to automate visual tasks.
- **Market Intelligence**: AI-driven competitive and market research to support proactive decision-making.
- **Product Design & Development**: Adaptation and improvement of existing tech tools to transform business processes.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: 13 employees (as of mid-2025), +90% YoY headcount growth
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None disclosed publicly
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Active job postings: 21 (up 75% year-over-year)
  - LinkedIn follower growth: +163.9% yearly
  - Website traffic: +16.6% yearly
  - Expanding global presence: offices in Brazil, Poland, Romania

## Competitive Advantages
- **Human-in-the-loop approach**: Technology is never 100% accurate, so Makai keeps people as the final firewall, ensuring quality and trust.
- **MIT-alumni founded**: Brings 20+ years of cross-disciplinary experience in AI, computer science, UX/UI, and business.
- **Full-stack AI capabilities**: Combines RPA, NLP, computer vision, and custom development under one roof – not just a point solution.
- **Adaptive software**: Solutions that learn and adjust to how people work, rather than forcing users to adapt to rigid tools.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the engineering and consulting team to meet growing client demand.
- Continuing to develop “groundbreaking AI products” (per LinkedIn updates) while maintaining a strong human-in-the-loop philosophy.
- Expanding into new verticals (healthcare, finance) and global markets (Europe, Latin America).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Tight-knit, fast-moving team solving meaningful problems. Emphasis on collaboration and impact.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid/remote flexibility – job postings list “In-Office or Remote”; HQ in New York with distributed team members.
- **Engineering culture**: Modern tech stack (React, Python, Docker, PostgreSQL, Flask, etc.) and exposure to cutting-edge AI/ML projects.
- **Growth**: Rapidly scaling company (90% headcount growth) with opportunities for ownership and career advancement.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but the company highlights “good people” and meaningful work as key draws.

## Sources
1. [makailabs.ai](https://makailabs.ai/)
2. [makailabs.ai/about](https://makailabs.ai/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/makai-labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/makai-labs)
4. [builtinnyc.com/company/makai-labs](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/makai-labs)
5. [crunchbase.com/organization/makai-labs](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/makai-labs)

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