Staff Backend Software Engineer

What You’ll Do

Technical Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, high-performance backend systems and microservices using Node.js.

Best Practices: Drive the adoption of modern software development practices, including automated testing, conduct code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.

Cloud Architecture: Architect, maintain and monitor robust, scalable and reliable services on AWS, leveraging services like EKS, MSK (Kafka), and S3.

Mentorship: Mentor other backend engineers and provide technical guidance to elevate the skill level of the entire team.

Incident Management: Lead the response and resolution for complex production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures.

Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, DevOps, and front-end engineers, to deliver timely, high-quality and performing end-to-end solutions.

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

• 10+ years of experience in backend software development, including significant time as a senior or staff engineer owning complex, high‑throughput production services.
• Deep Node.js/TypeScript expertise, building and operating Express (or similar) HTTP APIs at scale.
• Proven experience owning Tier‑1, customer‑facing transaction systems (e.g., posting, booking, marketplace flows) with strict availability, correctness, and latency expectations.
• Extensive AWS experience with production backends, ideally including EKS/Kubernetes, Lambda, MSK/Kafka, DocumentDB or MongoDB, and Secrets Manager/S3/CloudWatch, plus infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform or similar).
• Strong background in event‑driven and distributed systems using Kafka/MSK.
• Expertise with document databases especially DocumentDB/MongoDB.
• Hands‑on experience with zero/low‑downtime migrations.
• Strong understanding of microservice and API contracts.
• Fluency with observability and on‑call health, designing dashboards, APM traces, logs, and alerts; defining SLOs; and using these tools to drive down incident frequency and MTTR.
• Experience establishing and raising engineering standards for a team: PR and testing guidelines (unit/contract/integration/smoke/end-to-end), deployment validation checklists, and post‑incident review practices.
• Demonstrated technical leadership: leading cross‑team designs in ambiguous problem spaces, writing clear system design documents, operations runbooks, and driving alignment across Engineering, Product, and Operations.
• Proven mentoring track record, especially helping mid‑level engineers grow in system design, observability, and operational excellence.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain trade‑offs and system behavior clearly to engineers, product managers, and non‑technical stakeholders.

Compensation and Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
• Parental Leave
• Flexible Vacation Time (FVT)
• An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
• 401k matching (immediately vested)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
• Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
• Collaborative and supportive team culture
• Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
• Employee Resource Groups

For Colorado-based candidates, the salary range for this role is $172,000.00 - $223,000.00 + target bonus.