Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Deel as a Forward-Deployed Integration Engineer and work at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer success. You will collaborate with strategic customers to understand their technical needs and design and implement impactful solutions, including custom integrations and automation workflows. Represent Deel to clients and vice versa, acting as a technical advisor to help enterprise customers utilize Deel's full capabilities. This highly collaborative role requires strong technical skills and excellent communication, blending hands-on engineering with solving real customer problems. You will contribute to product planning and improvement, providing exceptional technical support throughout the customer journey. Deel offers a fast-paced, dynamic environment at the forefront of the global work revolution, impacting millions of people's working lives.

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills, especially with non-technical stakeholders and external clients
• Experience delivering client-facing solutions, whether in implementation, consulting, or embedded technical roles
• 5+ years of experience as a backend or full-stack software engineer, ideally in SaaS or B2B platforms
• Fluency in Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript, with deep understanding of software engineering best practices
• Strong SQL skills, particularly with PostgreSQL — including query optimization, migrations, and modeling
• Hands-on API development experience, validation, and performance tuning

Responsibilities

• Engage directly with customers to understand their technical requirements and business objectives
• Design and implement tailored technical solutions, often using Deel's and our partner Accounting and HCMs' APIs, webhooks, and backend infrastructure
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Solutions Engineers, and Backend/Frontend Engineers to deliver both customer-specific and scalable product improvements
• Contribute to product planning by feeding real-world customer use cases back into the roadmap
• Build and enhance product features, debug issues, and improve reliability at "Deel speed"
• Provide exceptional technical support during onboarding, implementation, and post-sale expansion
• Act as a trusted technical advisor, helping enterprise customers unlock the full power of Deel

Preferred Qualifications

• Love blending hands-on engineering with solving real customer problems
• Thrive in ambiguous environments and take ownership from idea to delivery
• Communicate clearly across functions and with clients — translating between technical and business needs
• Have worked in fintech, HR tech, or SaaS
• Have experience deploying solutions in customer environments (e.g., custom scripts, middlewares, internal APIs)

Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access