Senior Backend Engineer

Who you are

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience
• Strong skills in Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript
• Experience building systems on AWS (SQS, Lambda, EC2, RDS, etc.)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Experience designing and maintaining REST or GraphQL APIs
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases
• A commitment to writing unit and integration tests
• Knowledge of system design, caching, and security best practices (OWASP Top 10)
• Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
• AWS certification
• Experience with high-scale or business-critical systems
• You take ownership and ship clean, maintainable, production-ready code
• You communicate clearly and collaborate across teams
• You solve problems proactively, even outside your immediate scope
• You enjoy mentoring others and raising the bar for engineering excellence
• You stay curious and keep learning new technologies and patterns

What the job involves

• As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll help build and scale the systems running our global manufacturing ecosystem:
• Design and develop highly available, scalable backend services in AWS
• Build and maintain event-driven, asynchronous systems using Node.js
• Create robust APIs (REST / GraphQL) powering customer-facing and internal tools
• Partner closely with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to ship features that actually move the business
• Contribute to technical design discussions and drive best practices across the team
• Debug production issues and improve system reliability
• Continuously improve code quality through testing, observability, and documentation

The application process

• Final-round interviews will be conducted in person in either Oakland, California, or Portl

Benefits

• Monthly virtual work stipend
• Wellness perks
• Paid volunteer days
• Learning and development stipend
• Paid parental leave
• Equity options