Lapel

Backend Engineer, Primitives

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3 months ago

Base Salary

$190k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build state, history, permission, and event models for reliable and extensible Lapel primitives
  • Design an extensibility model that gives customers power without creating an unstructured blank canvas
  • Make primitives usable by people and agents through clean actions, histories, permissions, and memory surfaces
  • Decide what should be a Lapel default, configurable, or fully custom

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of backend or software engineering experience
  • Track record of designing systems that others build on top of
  • Comfort designing APIs, data models, permissions, and backend abstractions
  • Strong judgment about simplicity, flexibility, and clear product decisions
  • Ability to translate product needs into thoughtful backend foundations
  • Customer-focused, proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable with high ownership and autonomy

Benefits

  • Full medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and commuter benefits
  • Generous time off, company holidays, and coordinated team-wide breaks
  • Daily lunch and dinner, in-office snacks, and health and wellness benefits
  • Meaningful early-stage equity
  • Regular off-sites and collaborative team culture
  • On-site visit is part of the interview process

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About Lapel

11-50 employees

Infrastructure to power every customer interaction on the internet.

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