# Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

Hiring organization: [Zencastr](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/zencastr)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/da800872-644c-4397-9500-828c2e1f9942

Listed on Zencastr's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Remote: yes

## Summary

Zencastr seeks a backend engineer to build high-performance infrastructure for their podcasting platform, working within a fully distributed startup team. This role suits someone with deep Node.js and TypeScript expertise who thrives on solving performance-critical problems at scale.

_Our summary, not Zencastr's wording._

## Skills named

Google Cloud, Integration Testing, JavaScript, MongoDB, Node.js, Redis, SQL, TypeScript, Unit Testing

## Required

- 5+ years of TypeScript and Node.js development
- Strong knowledge of document/key-value stores like Redis and MongoDB
- Strong SQL knowledge
- Demonstrable experience building scalable consumer-facing applications
- Strong experience with unit, integration, and load testing
- Experience building APIs
- Experience with cloud APIs such as Google Cloud or DigitalOcean
- Computer science fundamentals understanding
- Excellent communication and teamwork

## Nice to have

- Experience with high-traffic, low-latency applications
- DevOps experience
- Digital Signal Processing experience
- Open source contributions
- AI experience

Apply on Zencastr's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zencastr/e5897c7a-4622-495b-a892-81763a2ef112/application