Backend Engineer (Freelance)
Remote
Job Summary
Build and maintain backend services using TypeScript and Node.js, integrating functionality with third-party APIs and external data services. Write clean, readable, and well-tested code while using AI tools daily to streamline development, debugging, and documentation workflows. Proactively identify issues, spotting bugs, performance bottlenecks, or architectural risks early to take ownership of solutions. Collaborate with remote engineers by communicating progress, blockers, and risks, managing priorities and complexity independently in a 100% operational role. Join a team of AI-first engineers at Make, an award-winning design and engineering agency creating software used by billions.
Required Qualifications
- An AI-first mindset
- Hands-on experience using Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex
- Hands-on experience building at least one large-scale system from scratch
- +5 years of backend experience
- +2 years of Node experience
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working in an asynchronous, remote environment
- A proactive, ownership-driven mindset: you see problems, raise them early, and help solve them
- Comfort operating in a 100% operational role, managing priorities and complexity independently
- Available for meetings in Central Time, with at least 2–3 hours of daily overlap
- Full-time availability is required (Aug through Dec 2026)
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