Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the role

Paperless Post is looking for a few Senior Backend Engineers to help build and evolve the services that power our events management platform. You'll work across distributed systems and web infrastructure as part of a deeply collaborative team with a robust development process. As a senior member of the team, you'll bring technical depth, strong ownership, and a genuine care for the end user — understanding that we're not just shipping code, we're keeping our users' trust.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve backend services for the events management platform.
• Work across distributed systems and web infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, QA, and other engineers.
• Drive technical depth, ownership, and user‑focused decision making.
• Influence architecture and articulate technical decisions across teams.
• Mentor engineers and foster a collaborative, feedback‑rich environment.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a backend or full‑stack engineer in an established codebase.
• Expert‑level fluency in orchestrating agentic AI workflows (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot).
• Extensive experience building and scaling distributed systems and web infrastructure.
• Expertise in developing RESTful APIs and maintaining SLAs.
• Strong critical thinking and ability to influence architecture.
• Collaborative mindset with clear communication and constructive feedback.
• Passion for solving problems and building features for end users.
• Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Resourceful and proactive problem‑solving, balancing quick iteration with practical solutions.
• Ability to mentor engineers and collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams.

Skills

• Expertise in at least one statically typed language.
• Experience with Golang, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java, or similar technology.
• Deep understanding of relational databases (Postgres).
• Expertise maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., CircleCI).
• Expertise in software testing with unit and integration test suites (e.g., Ginkgo, Gomega).
• Nice to have: TypeScript & React, GraphQL proficiency.

Benefits

• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Equity component as part of total compensation.
• Remote‑friendly role (eligible locations: NY, NJ, CT, PA, NC, CA, CO, OH, TX, FL, IL, WA, ME).

Pay

The compensation range for this role is $165,000 - $195,000 USD, based on NYC market and may vary by candidate location.