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Backend Engineer, MTA
Resend, Americas
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The role
This role is fully remote-based in Americas or European time zones, with some expected travel for team off-sites, conferences, meetups, and more.
Read more about how we work, how we hire, and what we value here https://resend.com/handbook.
What you will do
- Build and operate Resend’s email transport infrastructure
- Work on SMTP delivery, MTA systems, routing, retries, backoff strategies, and delivery controls
You will be a great fit if you
- Have strong backend engineering experience
- Have worked on email, messaging, notifications, communications, infrastructure, or other high-volume delivery systems
- Understand queues, workers, retries, idempotency, rate limits, backpressure, and distributed systems
- Have experience or strong interest in SMTP, MTAs, DNS, bounces, deferrals, DNS, IP pools, and mailbox-provider behavior
- Care about reliability, observability, operational excellence, and reducing blast radius
- Have low ego, high ownership, and strong taste for simple systems
You will be an exceptional fit if you also
- Have experience working on applications with a high workload
- Know about email best practices, or are willing to learn more about this space
- Are experienced in Typescript and Golang
What it means to join the team
- Autonomy to "just ship it"
- 100% remote team with flexible working schedules
- Modern tech stack (Typescript, AWS, Go, Postgres, Datadog)
- Honest and low-ego team
- Ownership of problems and solutions
- Comp: $150,000 - $170,000 USD, commensurate with location and experience
About Resend
Resend is building the most accessible email platform for developers. As we’ve grown to 4M+ users and continue to onboard thousands of new users every day, the pressure of maintaining a safe place for good senders continues to build.
We are building the modern email sending platform for developers. We care deeply about quality, craft, and the developer experience.
Our fully remote team of 50 spans 15 countries and counting. We're backed by a16z, Y Combinator, and others. Meet the humans → https://resend.com/humans
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Company facts
- Money raised
- $18MSum of funding rounds on record
- Newest round
- Series ADec 4, 2024
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- Open tech jobs
- 6
- With posted pay
- 100%
- Median posted base
- $145K–$173K
Compared with similar jobs
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- Median
- $165K a year
- Other jobs in the group
- 824
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