Software Engineer - Backend
Vesta Innovations Inc.6 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and scale backend systems that support customer-facing product functionality.
- Own backend and systems aspects of product features from early design through production.
- Build and operate production-grade distributed systems at meaningful scale.
- Work with multi-service architectures and collaborate closely with full-stack, product, and engineering teammates.
- Own performance, reliability, and scalability improvements, including query optimization, indexing, and resolving system bottlenecks.
- Make systems design decisions balancing scalability, performance, reliability, and product delivery.
- Operate with high autonomy and take end-to-end responsibility for backend features.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering focus with deep systems expertise; full-stack experience is welcome.
- Experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems supporting real product functionality at meaningful scale.
- Hands-on experience with multi-service architectures in production.
- Proficiency in at least one strongly typed backend language such as C#, Java, Kotlin, or Go.
- Hands-on experience with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL, including schema design and performance tuning.
- Familiarity with cloud-based production environments, preferably AWS, and infrastructure components such as Kafka or Redis.
- Strong systems design skills and the ability to reason about scalability, performance, and reliability tradeoffs.
- Experience owning performance, reliability, and scalability work tied to product features.
- Fluency in using modern AI tooling as part of the development workflow.
- Comfort with high autonomy, practical iterative solutions, and occasional effort outside typical working hours in an early-stage startup.
- Willingness to travel a few times per year for team offsites within the United States.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage with approximately 100% of employee premiums covered.
- Flexible Spending Account plan and 401(k) plan.
- Sixteen weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptions.
- Remote-first culture with a physical hub in the Bay Area.
- Work-from-anywhere and wellness benefits.
- Monthly cell phone and Wi-Fi stipend.
- Monthly DoorDash benefits.
- Flexible time off and company offsites.
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