Software Engineer, Foundations

5 months ago

Remote, United States +2 moreSenior

Base Salary

$215k - $270k/yr

Responsibilities

Design and build backend frameworks and services used across Hex.
Own and evolve shared APIs, realtime transport, and job orchestration systems.
Improve the reliability, performance, observability, and security of foundational backend infrastructure.
Partner with product teams to turn recurring needs into shared abstractions.
Lead technical design discussions and help set architectural direction.
Drive refactors, migrations, and system upgrades.
Improve internal tooling for debugging, operations, and customer-facing workflows.
Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards and practices.

At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and SQL.
Experience building and maintaining shared backend systems or frameworks used by multiple teams.
Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, relational databases, and data modeling at scale.
Familiarity with background job systems, queues, or workflow orchestration tools.
Comfort operating and evolving production systems over time.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Bonus experience with Python, GraphQL, WebSockets, BullMQ, Temporal, observability tooling, data platforms, developer tools, collaborative systems, frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript, or open-source backend and infrastructure projects.

51-200 employees

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