Senior Backend Engineer
About the role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Quo, you will spend a majority of your time coding, architecting, and owning moderate to complex components. Beyond your technical work, you may also lead a small team or a project. You might also spend time providing technical guidance, code reviews, and delivering on small/medium size projects end-to-end.
Potential Areas Of Focus
- Leveraging AI and advanced technologies to help customers manage and derive insights from their data
- Empowering users to independently set up, manage, and scale their accounts with a seamless and compliant process
- Enhancing core messaging and calling features, improving customer data management, and optimizing the visibility of conversations and contacts
About Quo
Quo is changing the multi-billion dollar small business phone system market by bringing calls, texts, and customer information together into one easy-to-use, AI-powered platform. We are driven by our values of moving fast, building with determination, and obsessing over delivering value to underserved businesses. Today, Quo is trusted by more than 90,000 companies and rated #1 in customer satisfaction on G2. We are backed by Y Combinator, Tiger Global, Craft Ventures, Slow Ventures, and other top-tier investors.
Technical Stack And Tools
- Built on Node using Typescript
- Orchestrated with Kubernetes on AWS
- Event-driven microservices architecture with RabbitMQ
- Different databases used for various purposes: Postgres, Mongo, Elastic, and Redis
- Observability tools: Datadog
- Additional tools: Figma, Linear, Notion, and Slack
Qualifications
- Strong experience with Typescript, or experience with object-oriented languages such as Java or C# and Javascript/Node
- Strong experience with observability tools, including metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing
- You take ownership of your work and understand the importance of communication
- You hold yourself to a high standard and help empower others to do the same
- You are intentional about how your work impacts customers, the community, and each other
- You practice empathy, generosity, and thoughtfulness as you evaluate tradeoffs in pursuit of the best solution
- You are curious and seek to understand the 'why' behind things, so that you can better plan and build the 'how'
- You support your teammates and customers through the continuous pursuit of knowledge
- Your code is a pleasure for your teammates to read and understand and you strive to ensure it is readable, testable, and maintainable
What We Offer
- Annual base salary range for this position in Chicago is $168,000 - $198,000 USD, plus equity and benefits
- Total rewards package includes equity, extensive medical coverage, a monthly lifestyle stipend, and a flexible PTO policy