Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, refactor and scale backend implementations of new and existing consumer product features
• Work with the mobile team to design and build strong, resilient APIs that propel our mobile app
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to understand member struggles and come up with creative solutions
• Proactively find opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems
• Work across the engineering team to improve and uphold high technical standards
• Participate in on-call rotation, including responding to incidents outside of regular working hours when necessary

Requirements

• 3+ years developing software in a production environment at scale
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or comparable frameworks
• Experience working with transactional databases and caching systems
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
• An appreciation of maintainable and well-tested code
• A desire to learn and dive into the deepest levels of how things work

Nice-to-Haves

• Start-up experience

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $133,000 - $166,000
• Eligible for bonus and competitive equity package
• 401k match
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• Generous vacation policy and company-wide paid days off
• Up to 24 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Annual wellness stipend
• 1% of time off to support local community organizations