Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our engineering team and help design, build, ship and support end to end features and products that will help developers grow their business.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain complex/large/growing systems
• Write and debug SQL
• Debug and find the root cause of production issues
• Ship good products
• Ship high quality code using good testing practices in iterative cycles
• Collaborate with others and communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture
• Proactively fix or suggest improvements when seeing something broken
• Be versatile and a fast learner

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer
• Comfortable writing and debugging SQL
• Love debugging and finding the root cause of production issues
• Love shipping good products
• Excellent command of at least one of the mainstream programming languages
• Know how to ship high quality code using good testing practices in iterative cycles
• Collaborate well with others and can communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture
• Proactive attitude

Qualifications

• Experience in Python
• Experience in PostgreSQL
• Experience building SDKs
• Experience with React and SPA applications

Skills

• Product mindset
• Passionate about shipping products
• Eye for reliability, scalability and performance

Benefits

• Competitive equity in a fast-growing, Series C startup backed by top-tier investors, including Y Combinator
• 10-year window to exercise vested equity options
• Full remote and flexible work environment
• 4-5 weeks of suggested time off annually for mental, physical, and emotional recharge
• $2,000 USD for workspace setup and $1,000 USD annual stipend for continuous learning

Pay

Compensation Range: $230K

Schedule

Full-time