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Backend Engineer (Freelance)
Make
WorldwideremotePosted 1 day ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Short-term contract
- Remote (Work from Anywhere)
- +7 years of backend experience
- +2 years of Node experience
- Full-time availability required
- Central Time overlap required
Role overview
Make is an AI-first design and engineering agency based in Texas with a global team, specializing in creating award-winning, large-scale software. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to craft software using AI-first techniques to drive growth and create high-quality end-user experiences within a culture that values creativity, self-management, and autonomy.
Responsibilities
- Join a team of AI-first engineers
- Build and maintain backend services using TypeScript and .
- Integrate backend functionality with third-party APIs and external data services
- Write clean, readable, and well-tested code.
- Use AI tools daily to streamline development, debugging, refactoring, and documentation workflows without compromising quality
- Work closely with other engineers in a remote-first environment, proactively communicating progress, blockers, and risks
- Identify issues proactively, spotting bugs, performance bottlenecks, or architectural risks early and taking ownership of solutions.
Requirements
- An AI-first mindset
- Hands-on experience using Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex
- Hands-on experience building at least one large-scale system from scratch
- +7 years of backend experience
- +2 years of Node experience
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working in an asynchronous, remote environment
- A proactive, ownership-driven mindset: you see problems, raise them early, and help solve them
- Comfort operating in a 100% operational role, managing priorities and complexity independently
Additional details
- Location: Remote (Work from Anywhere)
- Date: Short-term contract
- Time Zone: Available for meetings in CentralTime, with at least 2–3 hours of daily overlap
- Working Hours: Full-time availability is required until end of contract
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