Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

Overview

Employer Industry: Home Improvement Services

Why consider this job opportunity:

• Salary up to $323,400 for candidates in San Francisco / Bay Area, San Jose, New York City, or Seattle metros
• Opportunity for career advancement and growth within a new and impactful team
• Flexible remote work options available
• Chance to work on critical backend platforms that power significant backend services
• Supportive and collaborative work environment focused on improving developer experience

• Own the end-to-end health of Go build and verification pipelines, focusing on performance, reliability, and flakiness reduction
• Define and implement consistent backend CI/CD failure visibility and debugging workflows
• Improve local backend development workflows to shorten feedback loops and reduce reliance on staging deploys
• Establish and enforce Go platform standards, ownership boundaries, and baseline documentation expectations
• Act as a steward for the backend engineering community by running forums, collecting feedback, and mentoring engineers

• Experience owning and improving CI/CD systems for large, shared codebases
• Strong proficiency with Go and familiarity with Go build, test, and verification workflows
• Experience improving developer experience through tooling, workflow design, or platform standards
• Ability to diagnose and address systemic reliability and performance issues in infrastructure systems
• Experience working in shared ownership environments and establishing clear platform boundaries

• Comfort working on platform-oriented problems rather than feature-oriented product work
• Ability to operate with focused scope and deliver high-leverage improvements as an early member of a new team

#Home Improvement #Backend Engineering #Remote Work #Career Growth #Developer Experience

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