Software Engineer, Foundations

12 days ago

Remote, United States +2 moreSenior

Base Salary

$215k - $270k/yr

Responsibilities

Design and build backend frameworks and services used across the company.
Own and evolve critical shared systems, including APIs, realtime transport, and job orchestration.
Improve 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 that reduce long-term complexity.
Improve internal tooling to support debugging, operations, and customer-facing workflows.
Mentor other engineers and contribute to strong engineering standards and practices.

5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
Experience working 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, and asynchronous workflows.
Experience working with 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 (AWS preferred).
Strong communication skills and a collaborative, leverage-oriented mindset.

Amazon DynamoDBAWSExpressGraphQLHelmKubernetesNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactRedisReduxSQLTerraformTypeScript