Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Description

• Scale and evolve backend systems that manage hundreds of millions of participant records. Optimizing data pipelines, improving system responsiveness, and solving complex performance challenges as we grow.

• Own and mature critical infrastructure such as email/SMS delivery, data syncing pipelines, search APIs, and workflow automation. Ensuring reliability, observability, and operational excellence as these systems grow in complexity and usage.

• Drive the evolution from 1→10, improving existing services to handle greater scale, tighter reliability requirements, and deeper product integration. Not just building new features, but strengthening the platform beneath them.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with design, marketing, sales, customer success, and the founding team to shape product direction and ensure engineering is aligned with user needs and business goals.

• Lead with technical vision, identifying opportunities to reduce complexity, improve developer experience, and guide architectural decisions that support long-term growth.

• Think platform first. You’ll design reusable systems and clear abstractions that power future products. We look for engineers who build with scale, flexibility, and long-term maintainability in mind.

Requirements

• You have deep experience developing and maintaining complex backend systems.

• You have experience working with Javascript/Typescript.

• You have experience building 1->10 infrastructure.

• You have experience leading a significant project or team of engineers.

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