Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API

About the role

You will build and maintain our backend that already handles millions of custom requests daily, and ensure that it’s reliable, performant and exceeds expectations for our customers as we scale. You will also be a steward of our API and ensure that it’s developer-friendly and easy to integrate with.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain our backend system
• Maintain reliability and performance
• Ensure the system meets customer expectations as we scale
• Steward our API to make it developer-friendly and easy to integrate

Requirements

• Deep intuition on distributed systems
• Experience with databases
• Maintainable code design
• API design expertise
• Reasoning about trade-offs between speed, scalability, and developer ergonomics

Qualifications

• Care about work powering products and systems that millions rely on
• Care about APIs that developers love to use

Skills

• Deep intuition on distributed systems
• Experience with databases
• Maintainable code design
• API design expertise
• Reasoning about trade-offs between speed, scalability, and developer ergonomics

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous equity
• Visa sponsorships
• 401K plans
• Daily lunch & office snacks
• Dinner at the office
• Unlimited vacation
• Caltrain pass reimbursement

Pay

Compensation Range: $150K - $300K

Schedule

Our team works fully in-person, between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office.

Life at Parallel

We are a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems. We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes.

Values

• Own customer impact
• Obsess over craft
• Accelerate change
• Create win-wins
• Make high-conviction bets