Senior Backend Engineer

Virtasant

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of backend service development in production.
  • Proficient in Node/TypeScript.
  • Strong data modeling and SQL skills with PostgreSQL.
  • Experience with AWS and microservice architecture.
  • Hands-on expertise with CI/CD processes.
  • Ability to design for observability and failure in production services.
  • Experience with AI coding agents in daily work.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend services and APIs in Node/TypeScript, Supabase, and Deno.
  • Work with PostgreSQL and telemetry data pipelines.
  • Integrate third-party services and clients' connected devices.
  • Own projects from scoping to launch, defining milestones.
  • Instrument systems for early problem detection and design for failure.

Benefits

  • Fully remote, full-time position.
  • Flexible work hours between Pacific and East Coast office hours.
  • Long-term independent contractor agreement.
  • Payment in USD, with biweekly or monthly options.
Full Job Description
About the role

Using a combination of IoT tracking devices and bleeding-edge software solutions, our client transforms with ease outdated processes into lean digital workflows, allowing their customers to interact digitally with their physical equipment, while at the same time, they collect data, derive insights, and improve the efficiency of their operations. Their backend ingests telemetry from physical devices, and ties together the integrations that make it all work.

For our client, we're looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer with at least 5 years of relevant experience in software development to own significant projects end-to-end, from scoping through production.

You will play a critical role in building the technical foundation and implementing cutting-edge software technologies that transform existing processes into digital workflows. You will be responsible for designing and building cloud-based applications to improve businesses' ability to schedule, maintain, and deploy complex equipment configurations. As the team's technical lead, you will help distill technical ideas into an action engineering roadmap. You will act as a mentor and coach for your team. You must have deep experience with microservice architectures, building highly performant and well-tested code. Your expertise will help our client create an intuitive application where customers can digitally interact with their physical equipment while collecting data, deriving insights, and improving the efficiency of operations.

What You'll Do

  • Design and build backend services and APIs in Node/TypeScript, Supabase, and Deno.
  • Work across PostgreSQL and our client's device telemetry data, plus the pipelines that move data between systems.
  • Build and maintain integrations with third-party services and our client's connected devices.
  • Own projects from scoping to launch: define milestones, keep work visible, and ship reliably.
  • Instrument what you build and design for failure, so problems are caught early.
What We're Looking For

  • At least 5+ years building and operating backend services in production.
  • Strong, current Node/TypeScript skills.
  • Strong data modeling and SQL with Postgres.
  • Experience designing and running microservices on AWS.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD: building, maintaining, and trusting automated build, test,
  • and deploy pipelines.
  • Experience operating your own services in production: monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling, and an instinct for designing things to be observable and to fail safely.
  • Comfort shipping behind feature flags and rolling changes out incrementally.
  • A security-conscious approach to code and dependencies.
  • Hands-on experience working with AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) as part of your daily workflow.
  • A track record of owning projects independently and working through hard problems with little direction.
  • Clear communication and a habit of surfacing issues early.


Nice to haves
  • Experience with telemetry, IoT, or device-connected systems.
  • Familiarity with our stack: Supabase, Deno, Modal, DBOS, GitHub, CircleCI, Datadog, LaunchDarkly, Snyk, and Auth0.


Our recruitment process

  • Recruiter interview (30 min)
  • Technical Interview (30 min)
  • Client - Two Technical Interviews (one with the VP of Engineering and one with one of our client's leads): 1hr each
  • Client - Two Collaboration interviews (with design and product): 45 mins each

We strive to move efficiently from step to step to make the recruitment process as fast as possible.

What we offer
  • Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)
  • Work hours - 8 hours, between Pacific and East Coast office hours (up to you, within this time frame)
  • Long-term, no-end-date Independent contractor agreement
  • Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choice


Our team Software Engineering Locations Latin America Remote status Fully Remote

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