Backend Engineer

As a small team, we’re all generalists and are constantly picking up new challenges. When it comes to code, we’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it. We use TypeScript and build scalable systems so we can continuously make progress on a solid foundation. We don’t expect you to have a background in everything we use, but we do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and experience building scalable infrastructure and backend solutions.

What you'll do

• Build the backend for various user-facing features
• Optimize real-time, synchronized data delivery across our clients
• Improve database and infrastructure performance by implementing caching solutions, connection pooling
• Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting for our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents
• Scale our service via architectural changes as well as infrastructure improvements
• Open-source any non-trivial innovations that come out of our work on the product
• Redefine best-in-class software development processes so that we can build an opinionated product

Tech

• Node, Postgres, and Redis
• Public GraphQL API that has access to all of the user's data
• Proprietary data synchronization library built for speed and offline support. Delta-packets are transported using WebSockets
• TypeORM, TypeGraphQL
• Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s
• Monitored via DataDog
• GitHub, Slack, Notion

What we offer

• Interesting and challenging work
• Work-life balance
• Competitive salary and equity
• Employee-friendly equity terms (extended exercise)
• Paid lunch and coffee during workdays
• Work remotely, no commuting to the office
• Paid co-working space/desk at an office
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (based on country requirements)
• Regular team events and off-sites
• 5 weeks of paid vacation
• 4 months of paid parental leave

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $103,565.50 - $124,724.04 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance

Experience level:

• 2 years
• 3 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: Remote