Zencastr: Senior Backend Engineer - Full Remote

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August 6, 2025 at 08:01 PM
Zencastr: Senior Backend Engineer - Full Remote

Headquarters: worldwide URL: https://zencastr.com

Empower the voices of the world @ Zencastr. If you want to push the world of podcasting into the future, come join a team who loves to live on the edge! We are a fully distributed team of smart people who are passionate about changing the world one voice at a time.

You should join us if you:

Have significant experience with Node.js and good knowledge of JS fundamentals

Have a good understanding of computer science fundamentals. You might not have gone to school for it, but you know the difference between heap and stack, different time complexities, and which patterns to use and when.

You are ambitious. You might want to build your own company one day or have tried to tackle the toughest tech problems just for fun.

You enjoy writing Javascript or Typescript

You have an eye for performance. Whether thinking about the latest client side bundling techniques, or the proper way to shard a mongo database, you want things to be fast.

You are a team player

You have good communication skills

What sets you apart:

You have a passion for high performance applications

You have significant open source contributions

You want to work in a fast growing startup. Which comes with the blood, sweat and tears of working to disrupt an established industry

You have empathy for the end user. A spec is a conversation starter, as an advocate for the end user you always are thinking about how to best serve their needs

You have an eye for code quality and you strive to uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design

Why you should choose us:

You’ll be working with world class engineers, Phd’s, and designers in a fully distributed team

Work in an agile and fast changing environment

Equity commensurate to your contribution in a profitable company

Health insurance

Unique challenges and the support and talent to solve them

4 weeks PTO

Freedom to work where you please

What we’re looking for:

5+ years of Typescript, Node.js development

Strong document / key-value store knowledge (Redis, MongoDB)

Strong SQL knowledge

Demonstrable knowledge of building scaleable consumer based apps

Strong experience with unit, integration, and load testing

Experience building APIs

Experience with cloud APIs (Google Cloud, Digital Ocean)

Bonus points if you have:

Experiencing working in high traffic, low latency applications

Good dev ops experience

Digital Signal Processing experience

Strong SQL knowledge

AI experience

How to apply: Apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zencastr/e5897c7a-4622-495b-a892-81763a2ef112 We are flexible! For the right candidate we ask: What do you need to do your best work?

To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/zencastr-senior-backend-engineer-full-remote

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