Backend Engineer

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HQ. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$/yr - $/yr

Mission

• Build core platform features that align with needs for Fortune 500 and fast‑growing AI companies like Greptile, Julius, Render, SoFi, and more

• Translate business problems to technical implementation

Outcomes

• Speed up latency by XXXms

• Reduce user workload by X hours/week through automations

• Build features that users don’t know they want by understanding their goals and finding better ways to get to their goals

• Ship full‑stack product features with Next.js + Type Script

• Design clean database schemas and queries

• Build long‑lasting Temporal workflows for complex business logic

• Develop responsive, accessible UI components

• Contribute to architectural and tech choices

Competencies

• Customer empathy

• 3+ years of experience

• Exceptional problem‑solving and analytical ability

• High agency – founded something in the past or worked on side project in the past

• Learns fast, thrives in ambiguity

• Spiky in one area (ex frontend/design, backend, databases)

• Intelligence, drive, values

• Knowledge of distributed systems

Bonus Points

• Temporal experience

• Knowledge in marketing technology and content management systems (CMS)

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet

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