Senior Backend Engineer

Virtasant • Austin, TX

3d • Remote

About The Position

Virtasant is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer with at least 5 years of relevant experience to join their client's team. This role involves owning significant projects end-to-end, from scoping through production. The engineer will be instrumental in building the technical foundation and implementing cutting-edge software technologies to transform existing processes into digital workflows. Responsibilities include designing and building cloud-based applications to enhance businesses' ability to schedule, maintain, and deploy complex equipment configurations. As a technical lead, the engineer will help create an engineering roadmap, mentor the team, and ensure the development of highly performant and well-tested code within a microservice architecture. The goal is to create an intuitive application enabling customers to interact digitally with physical equipment, collect data, derive insights, and improve operational efficiency.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years building and operating backend services in production.
• Strong, current Node/TypeScript skills.
• Strong data modeling and SQL with Postgres.
• Experience designing and running microservices on AWS.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD: building, maintaining, and trusting automated build, test, and deploy pipelines.
• Experience operating your own services in production: monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling, and an instinct for designing things to be observable and to fail safely.
• Comfort shipping behind feature flags and rolling changes out incrementally.
• A security-conscious approach to code and dependencies.
• Hands-on experience working with AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) as part of your daily workflow.
• A track record of owning projects independently and working through hard problems with little direction.
• Clear communication and a habit of surfacing issues early.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with telemetry, IoT, or device-connected systems.
• Familiarity with our stack: Supabase, Deno, Modal, DBOS, GitHub, CircleCI, Datadog, LaunchDarkly, Snyk, and Auth0.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services and APIs in Node/TypeScript, Supabase, and Deno.
• Work across PostgreSQL and the client's device telemetry data, plus the pipelines that move data between systems.
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party services and the client's connected devices.
• Own projects from scoping to launch: define milestones, keep work visible, and ship reliably.
• Instrument what you build and design for failure, so problems are caught early.

Benefits

• Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)
• Work hours - 8 hours, between Pacific and East Coast office hours (up to you, within this time frame)
• Long-term, no-end-date Independent contractor agreement
• Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choice

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed