Senior Backend Engineer

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs (GraphQL and REST) using Node.js and TypeScript
• Design and evolve real-time, event-driven systems that power core BuildOps workflows
• Drive the full software development lifecycle: requirements, design docs, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented code with appropriate abstractions and automated tests
• Improve observability and reliability with the right metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Profile and optimize services for latency, throughput, and cost efficiency
• Use and help standardize AI-powered tools for code generation, refactoring, debugging, test creation, and analysis
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and other partners to translate business needs into technical solutions and tradeoffs
• Participate in and often lead technical design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions
• Mentor other engineers, share best practices, and help raise the overall bar for the team

What We Look For

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend or full-stack development, including 1–2+ years in a senior or lead capacity on large-scale applications
• Strong experience building distributed web applications and backend services (microservices or service-oriented architectures)
• Deep hands-on experience with Node.js (preferably with TypeScript) in production environments
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining GraphQL (Apollo) and/or REST APIs
• Solid database design and modeling experience (SQL and/or NoSQL) and understanding of tradeoffs between different storage technologies
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and object-oriented or typed design
• Proven experience using AI tools to enhance your development workflow (e.g., code generation, refactoring, debugging, test creation, or analysis), plus curiosity about emerging AI technologies
• Ability to take ownership of projects end to end and operate proactively in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; you listen well, seek context, and explain technical decisions clearly

Nice To Have Skills

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
• Experience with:
  • Event-driven architectures and messaging systems
  • Cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, or similar)
  • Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Additional backend languages or ecosystems (e.g., Python) for services, automation, or data pipelines
• Experience with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) and performance profiling in distributed systems
• Exposure to machine learning or data-driven systems

Compensation

• $168,000 - $210,000 base salary range + annual bonus