Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve RESTful APIs used by our frontend and internal systems
• Own data modeling decisions across our relational databases with an eye toward performance and maintainability
• Improve reliability, observability, and operational excellence of our backend systems (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)
• Participate in architectural decisions around service boundaries, asynchronous workflows, and distributed system tradeoffs
• Diagnose and resolve production issues across multiple services
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD improvements to increase developer velocity and system stability
• Partner with product and stakeholders to translate complex business rules into maintainable backend systems

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience building web applications at scale in at least one modern language / framework (e.g. Python/Django, Rails, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience leading technical teams and large, complex projects
• Deep understanding of relational databases (e.g., Postgres), query optimization, indexing strategies, and schema evolution
• Experience operating production systems in a large cloud provider (e.g. AWS)
• Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker) and orchestration systems (Kubernetes)
• Experience with background job systems and message queues (e.g. Celery)
• Working knowledge of caching strategies (e.g. Redis)
• Experience with monitoring/observability tooling (e.g. Datadog, CloudWatch)
• Strong understanding of system reliability, failure modes, and operational tradeoffs
• Ability to communicate complex system behavior clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• A solutions-oriented mindset, willing to step outside your primary domain to unblock teammates and ensure successful delivery

Compensation

• NYC-level total cash-comp (base $160k into the $200’s, plus equity and a discretionary cash bonus)