Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Grow Therapy4 months ago
Base Salary
$182k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own backend services and APIs end to end, including technical design, implementation, deployment, and ongoing reliability.
- Drive architectural decisions and lead improvements to data pipelines, platform reliability, and business logic.
- Design safe, repeatable experimentation and A/B testing workflows.
- Diagnose and resolve data quality, performance, and correctness issues.
- Write maintainable, well-tested production code and raise engineering standards through code reviews and technical mentorship.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Data to translate goals into technical designs and execution plans.
- Shape team technical direction and contribute to cross-team architectural discussions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful ownership of production backend systems.
- Deep expertise in backend engineering, service design, data modeling, and API development at scale.
- Experience operating systems where reliability, data quality, and performance are critical.
- Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous technical and cross-functional problem spaces.
- Data-driven approach to experimentation, measurement, and optimization.
- Product-minded understanding of how technical decisions affect user experience and business outcomes.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with Product, Design, Data, and Data Science partners.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
- No-cost access to therapy through the Grow platform for US employees.
- Retirement savings programs and equity opportunities.
- Flexible time off, paid holidays, and a company-wide winter break.
- Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave and a new child stipend.
- Dedicated weekly flexible time for self-care.
- Annual wellness and development stipend.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for hub-based employees.
- Home office support and meal benefits.
- Wellness memberships, virtual care, pet insurance discounts where available, and global travel assistance.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite work three days per week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at the NYC, San Francisco, or Seattle hub, plus travel two to three times per year.