Backend Engineer (TypeScript)

Wynd Labs

1d • Remote

About The Position

We build infrastructure that delivers massive amounts of web data to the companies training the world’s most powerful AI models. We're the team that helps to power and support Grass, a bandwidth-sharing network that lets us operate a massive distributed crawler, giving us unique access to high-quality public web data at global scale. On top of that, we’ve built pipelines for ingesting, segmenting, and annotating billions of videos, transcripts, and audio files, powering dataset creation for frontier labs. We’re lean, technical, and move fast. No red tape, no slow decision-making; just a team of builders pushing to expand what’s possible for open web data and AI.

Requirements

• 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 Haves

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• competitive salary
• benefits
• equity package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level