Senior Backend Engineer
We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build our Open Source and Cloud product. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, and cloud infrastructure. This role requires both technical depth and the ability to think strategically about our platform's future.
What you'll be doing
- Designing new SDK/platform features and implementing them.
- Developing database schemas and data models.
- Creating and optimizing query performance and data access patterns.
- Building robust backend systems.
- Designing and implementing scalable API endpoints and services.
- Using security best practices.
- Implementing monitoring, logging, and debugging solutions.
- Contributing to architectural decisions and technical roadmap.
- We have an active community on Discord and GitHub. Everyone on the team helps customers, reviews PRs, and creates issues
- Having great documentation is essential. Everyone writes docs.
- We are a product-led growth company so everyone is expected to get involved in creating content like code examples, blog articles, videos and tweets
- Expertise in Node.js and TypeScript (we use Remix)
- Expertise with Postgres and Redis
- OK with being on call and understanding reliability is a shared responsibility for the engineering team
- Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- If you're remote you must be within EET to PST timezones (GMT+2:00 to GMT-8:00). We will arrange in-person events throughout the year
- A proven track record of contributing to open source projects
- You've previously been a venture-backed startup founder
- Experience with React, or better still, Remix
- Worked on a high throughput system
- Designed SDKs for developers
- Experience with self-managed Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Linux
- OTel or "o11y" experience
- Worked at a developer tools company
- Experience with Go
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