Senior Backend Engineer (Integrations & Platform)

The role

You will design and build scalable backend systems for complex data integrations with government and enterprise partners. You will also develop asynchronous workflows, operational automation, and observability tools to improve platform reliability.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain bidirectional data integrations with government and enterprise partners
• Build reliable async processing using queues, retries, idempotency, and eventual consistency patterns
• Eliminate manual support work through backend services, Lambda functions, and internal tools
• Implement structured logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting
• Debug running systems including code you did not write
• Establish reusable integration standards
• Work with external vendors on API changes and coordinated deployments

Required qualifications

• 5 to 8+ years of senior-level, hands-on experience in backend, platform, or integration engineering
• Strong experience with TypeScript and Node.js
• Proven experience building and maintaining complex data integrations at enterprise or government scale
• Strong understanding of asynchronous workloads and processing
• Experience developing reliable, production-grade backend systems
• Strong debugging skills using logs, metrics, and tracing
• Proficiency with at least one SQL or NoSQL database in production
• Comfort working effectively in a fully remote environment

Nice to have

• AWS experience (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS)
• Azure experience is transferable
• Frontend or full-stack development experience
• Experience with financial, banking, or similarly complex data integrations
• GraphQL API design
• MongoDB or DynamoDB for async state management
• Experience with legacy enterprise or government systems
• Multi-tenant architecture experience

Benefits

• Work directly with the founding team
• Unlimited PTO
• Health care
• Career development budget
• Technology reimbursement
• Flexible schedules built on trust

Before you apply

• Requires at least 5 to 6 hours of daily overlap with the EST-based team
• Hiring process includes an online application, interviews, a coding challenge, and a design challenge

About the company

FutureFit AI is a SaaS/AI technology company with 30 to 50 people across the US and Canada. Their mission is to help more people get to better jobs faster and cheaper using an AI-powered platform.