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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** KOVO, LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software Quality, Node.Js, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Production Code, Software Coding
- **Published:** August 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/kovo/230e7620-20c7-4f19-ac02-350b3308fe88

## About the Role

Systems-oriented mindset

 * Care deeply about performance, reliability, and scalability
 * Motivated by ownership and accountability for system outcomes
 * Think critically about architectural decisions and their long-term implications
 * Thrive in ambiguity and are comfortable making technical decisions with incomplete information
 * Self-starter who can work independently and drive projects to completion

Focused on shipping high-quality systems fast - however it gets done

 * Comfortable in a high-intensity role and seeking an ambitious workload
 * Strong sense of ownership and willingness to deliver on tight deadlines. This takes many of our engineers more than 50 hours a week
 * Believe software engineering is evolving from writing code to orchestrating AI agents and are excited by this because it force-multiplies your output and impact
 * Embrace AI generation of code and workflow improvements while maintaining high quality
 * Hate AI slop and care about code quality and system reliability

Relevant experience

 * 5+ years or equivalent depth of experience in professional software engineering, with significant backend focus
 * Experience building and scaling production systems with Node and AWS
 * Proficient with TypeScript (bonus)
 * Track record of delivering reliable, performant systems at scale

## Description

As a Backend Engineer, you will own end-to-end backend systems, build reliable APIs on Node and AWS, and implement scalable architectures. You will be responsible for high-quality production code delivery, establish best practices, and interface with product teams to enhance financial product performance., * Some systems and processes are still being built

 * The pace of execution and career growth is intense (not optimized for work-life balance)

About the role

Engineering at Kovo is evolving quickly. You will own problems end-to-end, deliver a lot of high-quality code, dig into data, make product decisions, and iterate quickly in production.

Our core stack is Node (TypeScript) on AWS and React (NextJS) on Vercel.

What you'll do

 * Own backend systems and infrastructure end-to-end, from design through deployment and scaling
 * Build performant, reliable APIs and services that power our financial products
 * Design and implement scalable architectures on AWS using Node (TypeScript)
 * Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, reliability, scalability, and maintainability
 * Ship production code frequently while maintaining high quality standards
 * Help establish technical patterns and best practices for the engineering team
 * Interface effectively with product engineers and other stakeholders


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