Staff Backend Engineer

Accountabilities:

• • Architect, build, and evolve scalable backend APIs, services, event-driven workflows, queues, background jobs, data models, caching strategies, and integrations.
  • Own complex backend initiatives end-to-end, from discovery and technical design through implementation, rollout, production support, and long-term maintenance.
  • Lead ambiguous technical projects by breaking down complex problems, identifying risks, evaluating trade-offs, and establishing practical paths toward execution.
  • Improve system reliability, scalability, performance, and operational maturity through architecture improvements, testing, database optimization, caching, monitoring, alerting, and incident follow-up.
  • Investigate and resolve complex production issues across application code, databases, caches, queues, background jobs, observability data, and request lifecycles.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Data, Support, and other stakeholders to translate roadmap requirements into durable backend solutions.
  • Contribute to service-oriented and event-driven architecture while helping shape the technical foundation supporting a large-scale product ecosystem.
  • Provide technical leadership through influence, mentoring, constructive feedback, and clear communication of technical decisions and trade-offs.
  • Connect backend engineering decisions to customer outcomes, business priorities, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Help raise the overall quality bar through effective engineering practices, production ownership, documentation, testing, and continuous improvement.

  Requirements:

  • Strong expertise in Node.js and proven experience building and operating production-grade backend systems.
  • Staff-level backend engineering experience with a strong track record developing high-scale APIs, services, distributed systems, or shared product capabilities.
  • Strong command of backend technologies such as Node.js, TypeScript, Elixir, Ruby/Rails, Java, Go, Python, or comparable technologies, including runtime behavior, failure modes, and production trade-offs.
  • Advanced SQL and relational database knowledge, including indexing, query optimization, migrations, profiling, data modeling, transactions, read/write patterns, and performance tuning.
  • Practical understanding of service-oriented and event-driven architectures, queues, background jobs, webhooks, Redis or similar caching technologies, and systems operating under significant production load.
  • Working knowledge of infrastructure and platform concepts, including deployments, containers, CI/CD, cloud services, networking fundamentals, observability, and operational debugging.
  • Strong production ownership mindset with the ability to use logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, and incident reviews to improve system reliability.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, mentor engineers, facilitate technical decisions, and communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, including the ability to give and receive constructive feedback and work effectively across distributed teams.
  • Bonus experience working closely with infrastructure, platform, SRE, DevOps, or data teams.
  • Familiarity with Elasticsearch, BigQuery, analytics pipelines, search infrastructure, reporting workflows, or high-volume data processing is a plus.
  • Experience responsibly using AI-assisted engineering tools for debugging, testing, documentation, refactoring, prototyping, or developer productivity is advantageous.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fully remote environment across different time zones.
  • Candidates must be permanent residents of the United States; hiring is currently unavailable in certain U.S. states.

  Benefits:

  • Minimum starting compensation of $200,000 annually, inclusive of base salary and bonus, with final compensation adjusted based on experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.
  • Fully remote, remote-first work environment.
  • Unlimited paid time off.
  • Paid parental leave for all parents.
  • 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • $1,500 annual learning and development stipend.
  • Generous home office allowance.
  • Monthly health and wellness stipend reimbursement.
  • Company-wide meetings and team events in fun locations.
  • Company merchandise upon joining plus an annual work-anniversary credit.
  • Opportunities for professional growth, technical leadership, and meaningful impact.
  • Inclusive, collaborative culture focused on trust, accountability, and continuous development.