--- title: 'Staff Software Engineer, Backend at Nango' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-backend-nango-united-states-tdp8bd7p5er5' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Staff Software Engineer, Backend at Nango - **Company:** Nango - **Location:** United States - **Compensation:** $140k–$220k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-26 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nango/cc65bf5d-988e-4b82-827a-eb13eacb83a0 ## Job description (Remote — North America, LATAM or Europe) Nango https://nango.dev (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. More than 400 paying customers rely on Nango today, including Replit, Ramp, Mercor, Vapi, Instantly, and Exa. We are a YC-backed, multi-million ARR company with a team of 14 from AWS, Snyk, GitHub, Okta, Netlify, Uber, Samsara, and more. 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. ## WHAT YOU’LL DO - 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. ## WHO YOU ARE - 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. - Based in 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. ## About Nango ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Nango provides an open-source, developer-first integration platform that lets companies build, run, and maintain product integrations (including AI agents) across 800+ APIs at scale. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, and latest round in March 2026) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Bastien Beurier (Co-Founder, CTO) and one other co-founder ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Developer infrastructure (integration platforms) - **Target customers**: B2B – SaaS companies, AI-native products, and development teams that need to embed integrations into their products or connect AI agents to external APIs. - **Mission/purpose**: “Connect your product & AI agents with 700+ APIs. Build, run, and maintain integrations with AI in code, on infrastructure built for scale.” ## Products & Services - **Nango Integration Platform** (SaaS, open source, self-hostable): A unified runtime that handles authentication (OAuth, API keys, token refresh), webhooks, scheduled syncs, triggers, and logging/monitoring. It supports high concurrency, tenant isolation, and resumable executions. - **Nango MCP Server & AI Tools**: Expose any integration as an AI-ready tool (e.g., MCP server for Cursor), allowing agents to search, understand, and act on external data. - **Pre-built Integration Templates**: 3,000+ templates covering 800+ APIs (e.g., ADP, Azure DevOps, Workday, Gong, BambooHR) that can be reused or customised. - **Integration Code Generator**: Describe use cases in plain English to generate integration code automatically. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$7.5M** in a round led by Gradient (March 2026), with participation from Horizon and Y Combinator. Prior rounds include a $3M seed (2023) and $500k pre-seed (2023). - **Annual Revenue**: Not publicly disclosed, but the company reports **7-figure ARR** and serves “hundreds of companies” (nango.dev/blog). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Gradient (lead), Horizon (seed/early backer), Y Combinator (W23 batch). - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew **142.9% year-over-year** to 9 employees (LinkedIn). - Monthly website visits of 151k, up **111% yearly** (LinkedIn). - Team operates across 6 countries (US, Brazil, Switzerland, Poland, Spain, Argentina). - Claims **1M+ integrations** run on its infrastructure. ## Competitive Advantages - **Open-source & self-hostable**: Customers can deploy in their own environment, inspect infrastructure, and extend integrations in code. - **Developer-first with AI readiness**: Integrations are defined as code (API-first, CI/CD, local dev). The platform exposes any integration as an MCP tool for AI agents. - **Proven scale**: Built to handle high concurrency (<100ms schedule-to-execution), with tenant isolation and 99.9% uptime. - **Broad API coverage**: 800+ APIs and 3,000+ templates, reducing the need to build from scratch. - **Lean, high-quality engineering**: A small team of experienced platform engineers (many from Datadog, Snyk, etc.) enables fast, durable systems without large overhead. ## Strategic Focus - **Investing in AI agent integrations**: Nango’s MCP server and agent-friendly tools are central to their roadmap; they see integrations as a competitive edge for AI-native SaaS. - **Expanding API coverage and pre-built templates** to reduce time-to-integration for customers. - **Maintaining a tight, remote-first team** while growing revenues and usage, staying selective about hires to preserve velocity and quality. ## Why Work Here - **Fully remote** – team distributed across the US, Europe, and LATAM; outcomes over hours. - **Open-source culture** – transparency, community, and developer friendliness are core values. - **Expert-led** – colleagues come from developer infrastructure companies (e.g., Datadog, GitHub, Snyk); engineers work on hard problems (distribution, scale, API fragmentation). - **Impact & ownership** – small team (7–9 people) means direct contribution to product decisions and architecture; engineers do support and shape the roadmap. - **Technical challenges** – from building a custom Postgres-based scheduler to handling OAuth flows, rate limits, and schema quirks across hundreds of APIs. - **High growth trajectory** – 7-figure ARR, fast-growing user base, and a fresh $7.5M round signal momentum without sacrificing quality of life. ## Sources 1. [nango.dev - Careers](https://www.nango.dev/careers) 2. [nango.dev - Homepage](https://nango.dev/) 3. [LinkedIn - Nango Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nangohq) 4. [nango.dev - Blog: Building a developer infrastructure team](https://nango.dev/blog/building-a-developer-infrastructure-team) 5. 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