Backend Engineer (TypeScript)

The role

A hands-on Backend Engineer will build, improve, and operate backend services and production tooling. This role supports reliable web data acquisition at scale using TypeScript.

What you will do

• Build and improve backend code primarily in TypeScript.
• Set up and maintain metrics dashboards for production systems.
• Update existing code to support new metrics and improve system observability.
• Set up alerts and work closely with DevOps to optimize production systems.
• Automate deployments and operational reporting to Slack.
• Test systems in production, identify and troubleshoot issues, and fix bugs.
• Help clean up and improve the existing codebase.
• Write and maintain automated tests.
• Improve and optimize deployment processes.
• Implement code enhancements as new requirements emerge.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years of experience in a backend software engineering role.
• Solid TypeScript development skills and strong backend software engineering fundamentals.
• Good understanding of metrics, monitoring, and alerting, with the ability to debug and troubleshoot production systems.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and make reliable improvements to existing systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with Go.
• Experience with Datadog, OpenObserve, and/or building Slack bots or integrations.
• Familiarity with web scraping and browser automation, including Playwright.

Benefits

• competitive salary
• benefits

About the company

wynd-labs builds infrastructure that delivers massive amounts of web data to companies training AI models. They operate a massive distributed crawler and build pipelines for ingesting, segmenting, and annotating billions of files.