Staff Backend Engineer, Privy
New York, NYOnsite8+ YOE
Summary
Builds and maintains large-scale production backend systems, focusing on modern APIs, data models, databases, and infrastructure for developer tooling in privacy/crypto. Requires 8+ years experience, pragmatic coding, and strong communication.
About the role
What you’ll do
Engineering at Privy creates software that turns complex technical systems into delightful developer tools, assembling primitives into intuitive APIs and interfaces. Emphasizes open-source work, transparency, big thinking, experiments, and curiosity to build better tooling.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and maintaining a production system at scale
- Understanding of modern API development best practices and design
- Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment
- Growth mindset and constant curiosity and fearlessness to dive into the unknown
- Ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code, but pragmatic about moving fast
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including clear technical documentation
Preferred qualifications
- Strong preference for experience in an API-based business and in payments, fintech, or crypto
- Written open-source developer tooling
- Published about your work (open source code, internal or external presentations, blog posts, etc.)
- Past experience working in authentication or security
Skills
API DevelopmentDatabase ManagementData ModelingDatabase MigrationsInfrastructure ConfigurationAuthenticationSecurityPostgreSQLGoTypeScript