Staff Backend Engineer (Remote, UK)

Nango Inc; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading product integration platform in the UK is seeking a seasoned backend engineer to design and scale their open-source platform. The role requires over 10 years of experience in backend engineering, with a strong focus on performance and developer satisfaction. If you thrive in a remote-first environment and have a passion for developer tools, we want to hear from you. Competitive salary ranges from $120K to $200K.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with a proven ability to scale high-traffic systems.
• Deep experience with databases and performance-critical systems.
• Passion for developer tools and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale backend systems, APIs, and services for our platform.
• Build developer interfaces: APIs, SDKs, UIs.
• Collaborate with customers to solve integration challenges.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Node.js

APIs

Developer infrastructure

Performance optimization

Strong communication

Job description

Overview

At Nango (YC W23), we’re building the modern way for developers to build product integrations. We’re the leading open-source platform for product integrations. We have more than 100 paying customers and have reached $1M ARR with a small team. We’re backed by YC and executives from Cloudflare, Retool, Notion. Adoption is strong among fast-growing AI companies where integrations are the first step to connecting AI agents with the real world.

Base pay range

$120,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr

What You’ll Do

• Design and scale backend systems, APIs, and services for our open-source platform.
• Build world-class developer interfaces: APIs, SDKs, UIs, and a runtime that delights developers.
• Collaborate directly with customers to solve integration challenges.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability across backend services.
• Shape the roadmap and company strategy with high ownership of key decisions.
• Engage with the open-source community, owning and maintaining our repo.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with proven ability to scale high-traffic systems.
• Deep experience with developer infrastructure, APIs, databases, and performance-critical systems.
• Passion for developer tools, best practices, and building outstanding DX.
• Comfortable with Node.js and modern backend stacks.
• Strong communicator, proactive, and reliable in a remote-first environment.
• Product mindset and developer empathy: you optimize for DX.
• Pragmatic, positive, and low ego: you step up in incidents and unblock teammates.
• Startup-ready: autonomous, ownership-driven, and able to navigate ambiguity.

If you’re a seasoned backend engineer who loves developer infrastructure, thrives on ownership, and wants to shape the future of integrations — we’d love to hear from you.

Compensation

Compensation Range: $120K - $200K

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development