Staff Backend Engineer

Skills

About the Role

You will build and maintain backend systems that support user-facing functionality. You will design and implement microservice and event-driven architectures, improve infrastructure and database performance using sharding and caching, and design applications for high-volume real-time transactions. You will work primarily with Node and TypeScript, develop against MongoDB, and deploy and monitor services on AWS and CloudFlare using DataDog.

Requirements

• Node
• TypeScript
• MongoDB
• AWS
• CloudFlare
• DataDog
• GitHub
• Slack
• Notion
• Linear

Responsibilities

• Build the backend to support various user-facing functionality
• Develop microservice or event-driven architectures
• Improve performance of infrastructure and databases with sharding, caching, and architectural changes
• Design applications and systems for high-volume real-time transactions

Benefits

• Equity
• Home office stipend
• Shiny Mac of your choice
• Wellness benefit
• Unlimited PTO
• Remote work
• Paid coffee during workdays
• Paid overtime meal
• Health dental vision