Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Remote — West Coast

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Remote — West Coast role is remote in the West Coast USA. Compensation is $160,000–$200,000 per year. The engineer supports the team responsible for costing, pricing, lead time, and design for manufacturability in MISUMI Americas’ instant quoting platform. This role builds and scales backend systems that determine manufacturing costs, delivery timing, and manufacturability for customer-submitted parts. It contributes to platform reliability and customer trust through backend services, APIs, testing, production support, and collaboration across product, frontend, and infrastructure teams.

What you'll do

• Design and develop scalable AWS backend services
• build and maintain event-driven Node.js systems and REST or GraphQL APIs
• use AI coding agents while verifying correctness
• write specifications and tests
• collaborate across product, frontend, and infrastructure
• contribute to technical design and engineering practices
• debug production issues
• improve reliability, code quality, observability, and documentation.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

backend engineering

remote west coast usa

misumi americas

aws

node.js

javascript

typescript

rest apis

graphql

distributed systems

ai coding agents

$160k–$200k per year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• flexible, West Coast-friendly work environment
• minimal travel (0–10%).

Why this role

The role uses AI coding agents as part of development and supports an instant quoting platform for manufacturing costing, pricing, lead time, and design for manufacturability.

About the employer

Fictiv is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.