Backend Engineer
Techstars is a global startup accelerator and early-stage venture capital firm investing in ambitious founders through capital, mentorship, and a worldwide network.
Projects
About Techstars
Founded in 2006, Techstars operates mentorship-driven accelerator programs and venture funds for early-stage startups. Accepted accelerator companies receive a current $220,000 investment, three months of intensive mentorship, and ongoing access to Techstars’ network of founders, investors, mentors, and partners. The public brand is operated by Techstars Central LLC.
Skills
About the Role
You will build and maintain data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, PostgreSQL databases, internal tooling, and third-party integrations. You will improve observability, incident response, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and deployment reliability while collaborating across product and security work.
Requirements
- Data pipeline development
- ETL
- ELT
- Data ingestion
- Data transformation
- PostgreSQL
- Schema design
- Database migration
- Query optimization
- Data modeling
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- kubectl
- OpenTofu
- Terraform
- Python
- AWS
- S3
- RDS
- Lambda
- IAM
- Observability
- Reliability
- Debugging
- Troubleshooting
- Agile development
- Communication
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain data pipelines across Salesforce, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and internal APIs
- Own and evolve Kubernetes-based infrastructure, deployment tooling, secrets management, and cluster health
- Support infrastructure reliability through incident response, observability, and proactive improvements
- Maintain and improve PostgreSQL schema design, migrations, query performance, and data integrity
- Support Salesforce data flows and platform integrations
- Build and maintain internal tooling and SaaS integrations
- Contribute to CI/CD, testing, code review, and documentation
- Deliver work through an agile product backlog and sprint process
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid time off