Staff Backend Engineer, Api Team

Duro is on a mission to fundamentally change the future of hardware development, helping teams develop 3x faster and save 25% in supply chain costs. Our cutting-edge Product Lifecycle Management platform helps hardware teams move with agility, make timely decisions, and build disruptive products.

Backed by top investors, Duro is a forward-thinking group of innovators where collaboration and open communication are the norm. We're all about advancing boundaries, learning from each other, and making a real impact on the future. We’re headquartered in Los Angeles and are looking to grow our team with a Staff Backend Engineer. So, if you're a talented engineer ready to revolutionize the way hardware gets built, then Duro is your launchpad.

This is a Hybrid positionin Los Angeles (Silverlake), not a remote position. A successful candidate must be willing to work in our office, on average, 2 to 3 days per week.

• Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services both internal and external
• Lay the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale
• Work with customer success teams to help developers integrate with the API
• Work with business stakeholders to launch new integrations, revenue streams, and capabilities for our data
• Align our technical decisions with Duro's broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new businesses
• Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing workflows can be leveraged vs. when building a new solution is prudent
• Work with other engineering teams to enable existing products to become resilient, performant, and robust

Requirements

Baseline Qualifications

• Have a strong technical background, including 6+ years of experience designing and engineering large-scale systems
• Ability to write high-quality code in Go or TypeScript
• Are comfortable working on a new product under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations
• Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices
• Internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
• Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers
• Ability to tackle challenging problems creatively and effectively
• Thorough understanding of the role many of the technologies play in Duro’s company stack.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies; We prefer the Linear Method ;)
• Must be a US Citizen (for ITAR compliance, please do not apply if otherwise)

Preferred Qualifications

• Have helped grow a new team or product and are excited about helping make a great team environment
• Experience building distributed applications or working with microservice architectures
• Experience in building GraphQL and RESTful APIs with authentication and authorization
• Experience working with Apache Kafka or other pub/sub systems
• Knowledge of web security practices and how to implement them in both frontend and backend development
• Bonus if familiar with PLM/CAD industry or physical product design

Benefits

• Working at a high-growth VC-backed startup where work-life balance is important
• Competitive salary & equity compensation package
• Full employee benefits for Medical Healthcare, Dental, Vision
• 401k program
• Flexible work hours
• Unlimited PTO, Vacation is encouraged
• Annual salary for these roles, based in Los Angeles, range from $150k to $180k