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Remote Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js, Go, React, Remix)

at Complex

Posted 18 hours ago 6 applied

Description:

  • Complex is a leading global youth entertainment network that showcases major pop culture categories, including streetwear, music, sneakers, and sports.
  • As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in scaling commerce and content platforms to serve millions of customers.
  • You will lead backend initiatives that drive high performance, reliability, and extensibility across systems.
  • Responsibilities include architecting, building, and maintaining scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js, Go, and AWS infrastructure.
  • You will design and document service contracts that integrate commerce, content, personalization, and user systems.
  • Collaboration with frontend, mobile, infrastructure, and product teams is essential to deliver well-integrated features.
  • You will contribute to a modular, event-driven architecture using message queues.
  • Driving initiatives to improve performance, availability, and fault tolerance in high-traffic services is part of the role.
  • Writing robust tests and implementing monitoring and alerting to support operational excellence is required.
  • Participation in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and post-release reviews will be expected.
  • You will triage and resolve production issues, participate in root cause analysis, and improve system observability.
  • Contributing to documentation, tooling, and development workflows to improve backend team velocity and quality is also part of your responsibilities.

Requirements:

  • You must have 5+ years of backend development experience in production systems.
  • Proficiency in Node.js and/or Go is required.
  • Experience designing RESTful or GraphQL APIs is necessary.
  • A strong grasp of system design, testing, and debugging in cloud environments (AWS preferred) is essential.
  • Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar container orchestration tools is required.
  • Bonus points for experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
  • Prior work integrating with Shopify or other headless commerce platforms is a plus.
  • Exposure to observability tooling and performance optimization is beneficial.
  • Experience mentoring other engineers or leading technical initiatives is a plus.

Benefits:

  • Complex offers best-in-class health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Healthcare FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and Commuter Benefits FSA are provided.
  • Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance are included.
  • Paid parental leave is offered.
  • A 401k plan with a 4% match is available.
  • Pet insurance and legal and identity theft plans are part of the benefits package.
  • Employees receive vacation time and sick days.
  • The salary range for this position is $165,000 - $185,000 a year, with actual pay varying based on factors such as location, experience, and performance.