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title: 'Software Engineer, Developer Tools at Resend'
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# Software Engineer, Developer Tools at Resend

- **Company:** Resend
- **Location:** Europe
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/resend/2e3d92c5-79d9-4511-8faf-e2326e7a081e

## Job description

Resend is growing fast, and there are now over 4 million developers using it. We’re building tools that make email better for developers. We care about dependable infrastructure, thoughtful design, and the experience of everyone building with our products. On our DevTools Squad, you’ll work across our SDKs, React Email, CLI, MCP, and integrations, alongside the backend services that support them. Your work will help developers build within their existing workflows, understand failures, and confidently depend on Resend as their applications grow. 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…

- Build and maintain developer tools that make Resend easy to integrate with across languages, frameworks, and environments
- Build and operate services that support our developer tools and integrations
- Collaborate with product squads on clear API contracts and consistent behavior across SDKs, CLI, MCP, and documentation
- Build the interfaces developers and agents use to work with Resend, such as MCP, skills, and the CLI
- Take care of compatibility, testing, releases, and upgrades so developers can depend on what we ship
- Build shared tooling that helps other squads ship changes across our developer tools confidently
- Work directly with developers through support, GitHub issues, and pull requests

You will be a great fit if you...

- Have strong backend engineering experience, including building and maintaining APIs or services in production.
- Are experienced in TypeScript and Node.js
- Understand authentication, authorization, retries, idempotency, rate limits, and partial failures
- Have built software that other developers depend on and understand the responsibility of maintaining it
- Care about interface design, clear errors, useful documentation, and backward compatibility
- Think about agents as users of a product, with their own needs for discovery and security
- Can take an ambiguous problem, propose a focused solution, and follow through after release
- Communicate clearly, welcome feedback, and take ownership while working closely with others

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

- Have maintained an open source project or worked closely with external contributors
- Have built SDKs, command-line tools, MCP servers, or integrations between platforms
- Have experience with React or frontend build tooling
- Have built and operated systems with queues, monitoring, and error recovery
- Have worked across multiple programming languages and understand what makes a library feel natural in each
- Have experience with email development or a strong interest in learning the space

What it means to join the team:

- Room to shape technical decisions and take projects from discovery through production
- Work remotely with teammates around the world
- Close collaboration with the developers who use what you build
- Teammates who value thoughtful feedback, shared learning, and care for each other
- A high bar for product quality, reliability, and the details that make software enjoyable to use
- Comp: $130,000 - $160,000 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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