Senior Backend Engineer

About the Company:

Industrious is the largest premium workplace-as-a-service provider and home to the highest-rated workplaces in the industry. Everything we do comes down to creating great days for teams of all sizes and stages, including our own. We believe that what makes a great day at work is the people on your team and the problems you get to solve together. We’re looking for people who love thinking outside the box and thrive in a truly collaborative setting.

As teammates, we encourage new ideas and toast every win. We’re excited about having a meaningful impact on people’s workplace experience.

Great days also start when everyone can be their authentic self ersity of backgrounds, thoughts, and ideas is critical to our success in delivering great workplace experiences, both for our members and for each other. Industrious is committed to creating an inclusive, respectful environment that embraces your individuality and quirkiness. You are valued for who YOU are. We celebrate our people as individuals who can accomplish great things when we work together as one team.

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Industrious's Growth Engineering team owns every customer-facing surface we build: the member portal, the mobile app, the public site, for a member base growing alongside 100+ new locations this year. This Senior Backend Engineer seat is backend-leaning, genuinely full-stack, and comes with early access to the decisions that shape what gets built, not just how. You'll own production systems real members rely on every day, and design real AI agentic systems, agents, MCP servers, and the guardrails that keep them safe in production, not just use AI coding tools day to day.

You'll join a team of five to six, reporting to our Growth Engineering Manager. Code ships often here, you'll see the result of your work in the product within days, not quarters, at a company that's profitable, CBRE-backed, and still scaling fast.

It's Wednesday, Hub Day, so you're in our New York HQ with the rest of the local team. Standup surfaces a reservation-access bug: a member's on-demand booking isn't unlocking their room. You trace it through a Kafka event that never fired, patch the service, and ship the fix before lunch.

In the afternoon you sit down with Product and Design to look at the next iteration of the credit-expansion feature, the one that lets members book new locations with their existing credits. You flag a data-modeling tradeoff nobody had considered, sketch two approaches, and the three of you land on one together, before a single ticket gets written.

Later, you pick up a small frontend fix on the member portal. It's not glamorous, but it's yours to own like everything else here.

• Build and operate the backend services (Node.js, Type Script, Kafka, MongoDB) powering the systems thousands of members use every day.

• Drive the expansion of our member credit system so members can book new locations, and lead the reservation-experience redesign in our newest member portal.

• Own reservation-based access: the system that gets a member into the exact room and location tied to their on-demand booking.

• Push our site's performance and reliability forward for our members as an ongoing discipline, not a side project.

• Ship across the stack, backend, frontend (React, Next.js), and occasionally mobile (React Native, Expo), so the team is never blocked by a single layer.

• Design and build AI agentic systems, agents, MCP servers, and the guardrails that keep them safe, as we integrate intelligent features directly into our core platforms.

• Help the team get sharper with AI-assisted engineering as we build that muscle together.

• You love owning a real slice of a product thousands of members use every week, not maintaining someone else's legacy system.

• You thrive on a small team where you're expected to touch the whole stack, not stay in one lane.

• You're comfortable moving fast and fixing forward, especially now that AI tooling makes course-correcting cheaper.

• You want your technical read to shape what we build, not just how we…