Backend Engineer – Freelance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Become part of a team of engineers focused on AI-first solutions.

• Develop and sustain backend services utilizing TypeScript and Node.js.

• Connect backend functionalities with third-party APIs and external data services.

• Produce clean, comprehensible, and thoroughly tested code.

• Employ AI tools daily to enhance development, debugging, refactoring, and documentation processes.

• Collaborate with fellow engineers in a remote-first setting.

• Proactively communicate progress, obstacles, and risks.

• Early identification of bugs, performance issues, and architectural risks.

• Assume responsibility for recognizing and resolving technical challenges.

⛳️ Requirements

• Practical experience with Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex.

• Proven experience in constructing at least one large-scale system from the ground up.

• Over 5 years of backend development experience.

• More than 2 years of experience with Node.js.

• Proficient in developing backend services using TypeScript and Node.js.

• Familiarity with integrating third-party APIs and external data services.

• Experience utilizing AI tools for development, debugging, refactoring, and documentation purposes.

• Strong communication abilities.

• Comfortable working asynchronously in a remote environment.

• Proactive and ownership-oriented attitude.

• Capability to work independently in a fully operational role.

• Full-time availability until the end of the contract.

• Availability for meetings in Central Time with a daily overlap of 2–3 hours.

• Experience with agency work or collaborating with external clients.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time commitment required until the end of the short-term contract.

• Remote work flexibility from any location.

• Engage in a remote-first work culture.

• Opportunity to utilize AI-first engineering techniques and tools.

• Contribute to award-winning software utilized by billions of users.

• Collaborate with a diverse team of engineers and designers.

• Enjoy autonomy, ownership, and initiative in a “Managers of One” culture.