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# Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Stedi, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Computer Programming, Amazon DynamoDB, Github, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), TypeScript, Web Applications, Stripe, Functional Programming, Api Gateway, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Serverless Computing, Pagerduty
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/backend-engineer-us-canada-stedi-2-7168292

## About the Role

* 4+ years of coding experience, previous work in Rust and TypeScript is beneficial
 * 4+ years working with AWS services
 * Committed to working with AWS serverless offerings in a production environment
 * Ability to prioritize your work based on the needs of the business and the customers
 * High bandwidth; thoughtful attention to many areas simultaneously
 * Ability to context switch throughout the course of the day or week as priorities shift
 * Philosophical alignment with the Stedi Standards, At Stedi, we're looking for people who are deeply curious and aligned to our ways of working. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't perfectly match the job description.

## Description

* We use AWS exclusively for our customer-facing backend infrastructure. We use tools like GitHub, Stripe, and PagerDuty, but all of our application work happens on AWS.
 * We use serverless technologies almost exclusively: Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, Aurora Serverless, and more. We don't run a single server.
 * We use CDK (TypeScript) to define infrastructure as code.
 * We write the majority of our API backends and EDI parsing engine in Rust.

What you'll do

 * Design and develop complex, large-scale web applications and APIs
 * Work closely with AWS to improve our understanding and use of their services
 * Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence and rigor through both coding and writing high-quality, effective communication
 * Build the highest quality, broadest-reaching commercial trading network at the lowest possible price for our customers


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