Software Engineer (Backend), Foundation

What will you be doing?

• Building and maintaining shared backend frameworks, libraries, and internal tooling used by engineering teams across Front
• Designing and implementing systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance — including our task queue, batch job framework, database ORM, and real-time event infrastructure
• Owning and evolving our CI/CD systems, ensuring fast, reliable, and safe delivery pipelines
• Collaborating closely with other engineering teams to understand their pain points, establish shared patterns, and drive adoption of new frameworks
• Influencing Front's backend architecture and the engineering-wide standards that flow from it
• Navigating ambiguity, defining the right problems to solve, and delivering solutions of significant complexity

What skills and experience do you need?

• Backend JavaScript/TypeScript engineers — this role is not focused on frontend development
• Experience building frameworks, libraries, and/or developer-facing internal tools
• Experience building distributed systems with an emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance
• Exceptional software design fundamentals and a track record of delivering high-complexity projects
• Clear, structured thinking and strong communication skills — your stakeholders are other engineers, so the ability to explain technical tradeoffs matters
• Comfort navigating ambiguity: you can drive clarity and execute without a fully-defined roadmap
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, low-ego, and high-growth environment

Bonus points

• Deep TypeScript performance optimization experience
• Prior work on platform or enablement teams at a product-led company

Why is this role special?

• You'll get exposure to a wide range of production systems — our task queue (event-driven architecture), database ORM, real-time events, CI/CD pipelines, and batch job framework
• You'll heavily influence Front's backend architecture and the patterns used by the entire engineering org
• Your primary stakeholders are other engineering teams — you're building for builders
• Your work has compounding impact: improvements you make ripple across every team shipping customer-facing features

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Equity (we are post-series D & backed by some of the best VCs in the US)
• Private health insurance, including plan options at no cost to employees
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible time off policy
• Flexibility to work from home Monday and Friday
• Mental health support with Workplace Options
• Family planning support with Maven
• $100 per month Lifestyle Stipend to spend on fitness, health and wellness, and other activities
• Wellness Days - Fronteers get an additional day off on months with no holidays
• Winter Break - Our offices are closed from Christmas to New Year's Day!