2 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services for paywalls, subscription tiering, onboarding, in-app messaging, referrals, trials, and checkout bundling.
- Develop experimentation and instrumentation infrastructure using feature flags, experiment assignment, and event tracking.
- Work across acquisition, activation, and retention initiatives in partnership with mobile engineers and product managers.
- Design API contracts and services consumed by iOS and Android applications.
- Operate critical production systems, provide on-call coverage, triage and mitigate incidents, and document handoffs.
- Set engineering practices for Nanit’s US team, including documentation, asynchronous communication, code review, and on-call habits.
- Contribute to backend guild standards and best practices across R&D.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend software development experience with strong coding, software design, and architecture skills.
- Experience working independently in distributed teams with limited timezone overlap.
- Excellent written and asynchronous communication skills and comfort operating with ambiguity.
- Experience with critical production systems, load balancing, caching, and distributed systems.
- Proficiency designing and maintaining APIs consumed by mobile clients, including REST, gRPC, or WebSocket APIs.
- Hands-on experience with A/B testing infrastructure, feature flags, and event instrumentation, such as Unleash and Mixpanel.
- Experience with testing methodologies and test automation frameworks.
- Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
- Proven experience delivering backend projects successfully.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is advantageous.
- Preferred experience with consumer subscription products, billing, plan tiering, App Store and Google Play in-app purchases, or Stripe.
- Prior experience on growth, monetization, or lifecycle teams is preferred.
- Ability to take a concept independently from research through production.
- Willingness to travel to Tel Aviv for onboarding and periodically thereafter.
Benefits
- Hybrid in-office schedule requiring NYC office attendance 2–3 days per week.
- Remote work from home during August.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Equity options.
- Paid parental leave for all new parents.
- Employee discounts on Nanit products.
- Work-from-home stipend.
- Monthly team events.
- Healthcare benefits, 401(k), short-term and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance are available.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendGrowth Engineering
About Nanit
Nanit makes smart baby monitors, wearables, and a companion app that use computer vision and AI to analyze sleep and provide caregiving insights for parents. The company sells hardware with optional subscription services (Nanit Insights) and accessories. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, it is privately held and reports usage by over one million families.