Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Location: San Francisco CA (Near Powell BART)

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (3 days/week in-person in SF)

About the Role

Our client is building the worlds sell anything platform enabling entrepreneurs and marketing teams to instantly build test and grow online businesses and campaigns. Think of them as the GTM (Go-to-Market) platform for entrepreneurs with customers including major brands (like Tums). The company has raised over $8.4 million from investors like Figma YCombinator and Vercel and has achieved Series A/B metrics on a seed-stage cap table.

They are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to take on key technical ownership focusing on the system architecture behind their most popular high-scale products. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems and a passion for engineering excellence in a fast-paced environment.

Things Youll Be Working On

• System Architecture: Architecting and implementing critical backend systems primarily in TypeScript/Node.
• High-Scale Data Pipelines: Designing and building the ingestion pipeline for their analytics/insights products ensuring $>$99.99% uptime (utilizing Kafka ClickHouse and Redis).
• Ecommerce Infrastructure: Building out durable and distributed cart/hosting solutions for their core commerce product.
• Modern Deployment: Deploying a multi-tenant NextJS application for shops in Cloudflare.
• Stability & Best Practices: Spiking on CI/CD to improve stability and mentoring junior engineers on engineering best practices.

• 4 years of experience with production distributed systems and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Proficiency in backend development; comfort with TypeScript/Node is ideal but they are open to engineers willing to learn the language quickly.
• Deep understanding of highly available observable systems (Sentry Grafana etc.).
• Must be based in the Bay Area and work in-person 3 days/week from the San Francisco office.

• Salary: $200K - $300K
• Equity: Generous equity package (issued as a seed-stage company with strong growth metrics).
• Visa Sponsorship: Available.

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