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Senior Backend Engineer at Trigger.dev

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Build Trigger.dev’s open-source and cloud platform for reliable AI agents and workflows. The role is listed as remote or hybrid in the UK and seeks Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis and cloud infrastructure experience.

Trigger.dev initialsTrigger.dev
Location
Remote
Employment
FullTime
Work arrangement
remote
Technologies
TypeScript, React, Node.js, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Linux, Go
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Role overview

Trigger.dev provides orchestration, scheduling, monitoring and debugging for production AI agents and workflows. This senior backend role develops both its open-source product and managed cloud service. The posting specifies remote or hybrid work in the United Kingdom.

Responsibilities

  • Build backend services that deploy and scale customer code and support reliable workflow execution.
  • Improve monitoring, logging, debugging and platform reliability, including on-call participation.
  • Contribute to architecture and roadmap decisions, open-source code, documentation and developer examples.

Qualifications

  • Strong Node.js and TypeScript, plus production Postgres and Redis design and tuning.
  • Experience with AWS, GCP or Azure and willingness to share on-call responsibility.
  • Open-source work, React or Remix, Kubernetes, SDK design, Linux and high-throughput systems are useful extras.

Technology in this role

  • TypeScript: Strong Node.js and TypeScript, plus production Postgres and Redis design and tuning.
  • React: Open-source work, React or Remix, Kubernetes, SDK design, Linux and high-throughput systems are useful extras.
  • AWS: Experience with AWS, GCP or Azure and willingness to share on-call responsibility.

Benefits

  • The posting lists compensation and equity, asynchronous working, home-office equipment, 25 vacation days excluding public holidays, sick and parental leave, a training budget and pension contributions.

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Source checked: 2026-10-29

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