Resend

Backend Engineer, MTA

Region Restricted

Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.

Europe

Employer listed it 4 weeks ago · Added 4 weeks ago

Been open since 4 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.

Salary

$150,000 to $170,000

Location

Europe

Timezone

CET ±2

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Mid

What the advert says

Quoted word for word from the employer's advert. Where it says nothing, we say so.

Working hours: This role is fully remote-based in Americas or European time zones, with some expected travel for team off-sites, conferences, meetups, and more.
Where you can work from: This role is fully remote-based in Americas or European time zones, with some expected travel for team off-sites, conferences, meetups, and more.
Contract: Not mentioned in the advert
Experience asked for: Not mentioned in the advert
Pay: Comp: $150,000 - $170,000 USD, commensurate with location and experience

Remote flexibility

Region Restricted

Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in Europe.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Europe, Remote"
Job description states: "based in Americas or European time zone"

What Nomaders makes of it

Timezone overlap with the listed area is often expected

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Before you apply

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About the role

Resend is building the most accessible email platform for developers. As we’ve grown to 4M+ users and continue to onboard thousands of new users every day, the pressure of maintaining a safe place for good senders continues to build.

This role is fully remote-based in Americas or European time zones, with some expected travel for team off-sites, conferences, meetups, and more.

Read more about how we work, how we hire, and what we value here .

In this role, you will…

Build and operate Resend’s email transport infrastructure

Work on SMTP delivery, MTA systems, routing, retries, backoff strategies, and delivery controls

Design systems for domain-level, provider-level, customer-level, and IP-level throttling

Build infrastructure for shared IP pools, dedicated IPs, warmup execution, and reputation-aware routing

Improve how Resend classifies bounces, deferrals, transient failures, hard failures, and delivery outcomes

Build tools that help the team debug delivery issues by customer, domain, mailbox provider, route, IP, message type, and event

Help design systems that make sending behavior safer, more observable, and easier to operate

Translate reputation strategy into backend systems

Partner with Trust & Safety and Core Sending to build controls that protect Resend’s sending network from abuse

Participate in incident response for sending, provider, and deliverability-sensitive issues

Be on-call for critical services

You will be a great fit if you...

Have strong backend engineering experience

Have worked on email, messaging, notifications, communications, infrastructure, or other high-volume delivery systems

Understand queues, workers, retries, idempotency, rate limits, backpressure, and distributed systems

Have experience or strong interest in SMTP, MTAs, DNS, bounces, deferrals, DNS, IP pools, and mailbox-provider behavior

Care about reliability, observability, operational excellence, and reducing blast radius

Have low ego, high ownership, and strong taste for simple systems

You will be an exceptional fit if you also...

Have experience working on applications with a high workload

Requirements

The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.

Benefits

No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.

How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at Resend, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (CET ±2).
3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

Found 27d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.

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