Trigger.dev
Senior Backend Engineer (Europe)
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · Remote or Hybrid UK
Employer listed it 7 days ago · Added yesterday
First listed 7 days ago and still open.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Hybrid · Remote or Hybrid UK
Work style
Async
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $165k–$225k a year, a typical range taken from 597 senior-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Remote or Hybrid UK, Remote, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote or Hybrid UK, Remote"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
About Trigger.dev
Trigger.dev is the platform for running reliable AI agents and workflows. Developers use it to build, deploy, and scale production systems with built-in tools for orchestration, scheduling, monitoring, and debugging.
Our Cloud product is a managed service where we deploy our users' code and auto-scale from zero to millions of executions. Today, we serve thousands of teams building AI apps and agents, handling hundreds of millions of executions per month.
About the position
We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build our Open Source and Cloud product. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, and cloud infrastructure. This role requires both technical depth and the ability to think strategically about our platform's future.
What you'll be doing
You'll do a variety of things including:
Designing and implementing SDK and platform features. Shipping new capabilities end to end, from API surface to production rollout.
Database design. Developing database schemas and data models that hold up as the product scales.
Query performance and data access. Creating and optimising query performance and data access patterns.
Building backend systems that stand up to production load. Reliability, throughput, and durability are part of the job, not someone else's.
Scalable APIs and services. Designing and implementing API endpoints and services that handle real customer traffic.
Security as a default. Applying security best practices in everything you ship.
Monitoring, logging, and debugging. Implementing the observability tooling that lets us spot problems and fix them fast.
Architecture and technical roadmap. Contributing to architectural decisions and shaping where the platform goes next.
We build in public, so you can see some of the things you might work on here .
Working at a Commercial Open Source Software company is more than just coding:
We have an active community on Discord and GitHub. Everyone on the team helps customers, reviews PRs, and creates issues.
Having great documentation is essential. Everyone writes docs.
We're a product-led growth company, so everyone is expected to get involved in creating content like code examples, blog articles, videos, and tweets.
Requirements
You really need to have:
Expertise in Node.js and TypeScript. We use Remix.
Expertise with Postgres and Redis. You've designed schemas, tuned queries, and run these in production.
Requirements
- ·You really need to have:
- ·Expertise in Node.js and TypeScript. We use Remix.
- ·Expertise with Postgres and Redis. You've designed schemas, tuned queries, and run these in production.
- ·Cloud infrastructure experience. AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- ·Comfortable being on call. Reliability is a shared responsibility for the engineering team.
Benefits
- ·Generous, transparent compensation and equity - We hire the best talent and pay to reflect that. We also offer equity as a way to ensure everyone is invested in the success of the company.
- ·Async working - Need a heads-down day or meeting-free days to stay productive? No problem!
- ·Home office - We will help provide equipment for a comfortable setup so you're as productive at home as you are in the office.
- ·Generous vacation - We believe it's important to take time off. We encourage you to take your 25 days vacation excluding national holidays, plus sick leave and generous parental leave.
- ·Training budget - An annual budget to contribute towards learning such as purchasing books, an Audible subscription or online courses.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Trigger.dev, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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