We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with experience in designing and implementing public APIs to join our fully remote and mission-driven team!
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We create social media and brand-building software for small businesses, creators, and individuals. Our mission is to provide essential tools to help small businesses get off the ground and grow. Through exceptional customer service and uplifting content, we help our customers believe they can succeed and do good along the way. Buffer is a fully distributed team, and we’ve always aimed to do things a little differently at Buffer. Since the early days, we’ve focused on building one of the most unique and fulfilling workplaces by rethinking a lot of traditional practices. We also default to transparency, so you can read all about our metrics, and our successes and failures along the way on our Transparency Dashboard. We're united by Buffer's values, and we hire and work from all over the world. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive work environment, and we are building a culture where underrepresented groups are welcome and can flourish. Please note that we do travel to work together in person once or twice per year, and those events are highly encouraged to build deeper connections among our small team. As you get to know Buffer and consider joining the journey, feel free to read more from Kirsti and Sabreen as they share their first experiences with Buffer, as well as from Hailley who captured why she still calls Buffer home after 8+ years.
We’re looking for a senior backend engineer to join the Channels and Platform team at Buffer. You will play a key role in building our public API and creating a future plug-in ecosystem that would elevate Buffer into a platform other developers can build on top of providing creators the next generation of tools for writing editing managing content. We’re looking for someone with first-hand experience designing implementing maintaining public APIs extensibility platforms who enjoys going deep — designing data models shaping APIs improving performance helping systems scale with clarity confidence. You’ll work closely with product design mobile web engineers bring ideas life keep user experience smooth resilient. We work iteratively tight feedback loops balancing thoughtful engineering steady momentum. In addition building new platform you’ll help strengthen internal systems making faster scalable better equipped power content creation scale. There’s real room here shape direction make impact.
Posted 1/1/2026