Senior Backend Engineer (Platform)

About the role

James here 👋, co-founder and CTO at Conversion. Just wanted to share my thoughts on the perfect candidate we're looking to join our engineering team.

We're looking for a backend software engineer to join our core team. Here's what we're looking for:

• Built for scale: You light up at the challenge of building systems that reach millions of users and billions of events. You're detail-oriented, because at our scale the little things matter. You're energized by the fact that your work has massive, tangible impact.
• Love building for customers: We're extremely close with our customers. Every customer gets their own Slack channel in our org, and we add every engineer to the channel to directly answer questions, fix bugs, and ship features. You feel the urgency much more when you hear it from the end user.
• Intellectually curious: Conversion engineers are the kind of people who get excited about a weird edge case and end up sending five Slack messages about it before lunch.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of industry experience building robust and reliable backend systems.
• You have a startup mindset and want early ownership in a fast-paced environment.
• You have experience with our tech stack: Go for backend services, Kafka for large-scale data streaming, Temporal for durable job execution, PostgreSQL and ClickHouse as our databases, and GCP for cloud hosting.

Qualifications

• You have worked at a Series A to C startup that scaled quickly.
• You have a strong track record of side projects, apps, or hackathons. Our engineers have built a live-streaming security system for their parents' new house, a database from scratch, a better Splitwise app, and hosted our Minecraft server, all while at Conversion.

Benefits

• The role is in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco.

Pay

Compensation Range: $200K - $300K

Schedule

In-person 5 days/week in San Francisco.

Links

• Website
• Careers
• Next Play article on our team
• Engineering blog