Remote Position
[Remote] Backend Engineer (Freelance)
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Make is hiring a Backend Engineer for a short-term contract to build and maintain backend services using TypeScript and Node.js. The role focuses on integrating third-party APIs, writing tested code, using AI tools in development workflows, and proactively addressing technical issues in a remote-first team.
Responsibilities
- Join a team of AI-first engineers
- Build and maintain backend services using TypeScript and [Node.js](http://Node.js)
- Integrate backend functionality with third-party APIs and external data services
- Write clean, readable, and well-tested code
- Use AI tools daily to streamline development, debugging, refactoring, and documentation workflows without compromising quality
- Work closely with other engineers in a remote-first environment, proactively communicating progress, blockers, and risks
- Identify issues proactively, spotting bugs, performance bottlenecks, or architectural risks early and taking ownership of solutions
Skills
- An AI-first mindset
- Hands-on experience using Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex
- Hands-on experience building at least one large-scale system from scratch
- +5 years of backend experience
- +2 years of Node experience
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working in an asynchronous, remote environment
- A proactive, ownership-driven mindset: you see problems, raise them early, and help solve them
- Comfort operating in a 100% operational role, managing priorities and complexity independently
Benefits
- Remote (Work from Anywhere)
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