Member of Technical Staff, Core Backend

What You’ll Do

30 Day:

• Ramp on the StreamModule pipeline and the cork/uncork backpressure model
• Walk the Oct 15 / Oct 22 DB incidents and the duplicate-message incident
• Land a scoped pipeline or provider-abstraction improvement

60 Day:

• Own a slice of the BullMQ → Kafka consolidation
• Ship event-driven OTEL instrumentation for at least one critical pipeline stage
• Harden one provider plugin path so a new model can be added without core changes

90 Day:

• Drive a measurable reliability or latency win on the call path
• Be the backend owner that agents and FDE teams pull in for design reviews on new providers and pipeline changes

Requirements

Must-haves:

• Built real-time or streaming systems in production — media pipelines, streaming data, or event-driven backends
• Debugged a backpressure cascade
• Opinions on queue architecture (BullMQ, Kafka, Temporal) and when each is the right fit
• Built plugin or adapter architectures — extending base classes cleanly, with decoupled implementations
• Operated Postgres at scale: connection pooling, read replicas, schema migrations (Liquibase or similar)
• Instrument with OpenTelemetry and think in event-driven traces, not just logs

Nice-to-haves:

• TypeScript + Node.js + NestJS experience

Tech Stack

• Languages: TypeScript on Node.js (primary)
• Framework: NestJS
• Pipeline: StreamModule (VAD → STT → LLM → TTS → Transport), cork/uncork backpressure
• Queues: BullMQ (current), Kafka (target), Temporal
• Database: Postgres (connection pooling, read replicas), Liquibase for schema migrations
• Plugin system: Provider abstractions — LLM, STT, TTS base classes (pluggable, decoupled from model integrations)
• Observability: OpenTelemetry tracing, event-driven instrumentation

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and excellent equity ownership
• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
• Quarterly off-sites
• Flexible time off
• Catered meals, transportation, gym
• $10k annual L&D budget