2 days ago
Base Salary
$200k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own architectural decisions for backend and platform systems.
- Set technical direction and standards for the engineering team.
- Drive complex, cross-cutting problems that don't fit neatly into one lane.
- Identify and address technical debt that threatens scalability.
- Partner with the Head of Engineering on sequencing and tradeoffs.
- Provide credible technical guidance across the stack.
- Ensure all builds are secure, observable, and family-focused.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend and platform engineering experience.
- Experience with IoT systems, including device provisioning and firmware management.
- Deep fluency in Node.js and TypeScript.
- Comfortable owning AWS infrastructure.
- Strong architectural instincts with a history of making hard decisions.
- Ability to shape team use of AI in engineering processes.
- Regularly write code and expect to continue doing so.
- Collaborative and low-ego leadership style.
Benefits
- Opportunity to build technology that protects childhood.
- Ability to shape scaling decisions with direct impact.
- Join a small, high-trust team that supports each other.
- Room to explore and challenge assumptions in your work.