Senior Backend Software Engineer

About Paragon

Paragon is building the infrastructure layer that powers integrations for modern SaaS companies. We help teams ship and operate integrations faster - so product teams can focus on their core product instead of integration complexity. Our customers range from fast-growing startups to large enterprises, and our platform runs mission-critical integrations in production.

About The Integrations Team

The Integrations team builds the core systems that make it easy - and safe - to create, ship, and operate integrations at scale. That includes connector development workflows, shared libraries and services, and the runtime capabilities needed to keep integrations reliable in production.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain core services that power integrations in production (connectors, shared integration components, and platform APIs).
• Improve the developer experience for building and operating integrations: faster iteration loops, stronger tooling, clearer debugging and observability.
• Design and ship resilient integration behavior: retries/backoff, rate limiting, pagination patterns, idempotency, and error handling.
• Partner with product and customer-facing teams to deliver integrations that are correct, maintainable, and easy to support.
• Raise quality and reliability through testing strategy, monitoring/alerting, incident learnings, and operational improvements.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for production systems and contribute to incident response and postmortems.
  
  

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in backend, platform, or full-stack roles.
• Strong proficiency in building production services and APIs, with a focus on reliability and maintainability.
• Experience designing systems that deal with external dependencies (third-party APIs), including nuanced failure modes and operational realities.
• Comfort owning projects end-to-end: scoping, design, implementation, rollout, and ongoing iteration.
• Strong communication: you write clearly, collaborate well, and can explain tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical partners.
  
  

Nice to have

• Experience with integrations, developer tooling, SDKs, connector ecosystems, or API-first products.
• Background in operational excellence: observability, incident response, SLOs, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with TypeScript/Node, modern web services, queues/workers, and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience working in B2B SaaS and shipping customer-facing platform capabilities.
  
  

Why this role at Paragon

• You’ll work on high-leverage infrastructure that directly impacts shipping velocity and customer outcomes.
• You’ll build systems that must be both developer-friendly and production-grade—where correctness and reliability matter.
• You’ll have real ownership: meaningful projects, clear impact, and tight feedback loops from customers and internal teams.
  
  

Compensation & Benefits

We’re hiring for this role in the United States (remote), with competitive base salary + equity, depending on experience and location.

In addition to base salary, we offer:

• A brand new laptop and any additional equipment you need to do your best work
• Top-of-the-line health, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO, with a minimum encouraged amount per year
• Annual team retreats
• Optional relocation support to Los Angeles, CA if you’d like to work closer to part of the team
  
  

Compensation Range: $160K - $200K