Design and implement scalable backend services and web/mobile features for a high-traffic product. Improve reliability, testing, and architecture, participate in on-call/incident response, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and evaluate new tools to boost performance and remove team blockers.
Our client is hiring an experienced engineer to help scale a major, high-traffic product. Role focuses on backend or full-stack development, system reliability, and architectural improvements in a remote-first team.
Core Responsibilities
- Build features for web/mobile
- Design scalable backend services
- Partner with product + design on technical solutions
- Mentor engineers and improve team practices
- Strengthen testing, reliability, and standards
- Join on-call and incident response
- Explore new tools/approaches for performance
- Help teammates remove blockers
What You Need
- 5+ years building distributed, high-scale backend systems
- Strong with Node, Elixir, Ruby/Rails, SQL
- React + TypeScript experience (for full-stack work)
- Background in APIs, events, and webhook-driven systems
- Strong debugging skills across multiple services
- Experience with distributed/service-oriented architectures
- Bonus: payments, registration, communication systems
Other Info
- Fully remote U.S. (some state limits)
- Compensation starts ~$150K+ (base + bonus)
- Collaborative, remote-first engineering culture
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