Backend Engineer

We want engineers who can build a team and a company, not just a best-in-class product. We believe that certainly takes broad technical competence across our tech stack, but it also takes harder to find abilities, such as…

Thinking forward from first principles and backwards from customer needs at the same time.

Curiosity about both technical and business problems.

Navigating competing priorities and tradeoffs using your own mental map of company goals.

A desire for ownership in product & team decisions.

Loving people and wanting to make your teammates around you better at their own strengths.

We think world class early-stage engineers often share some common background experience, such as:

4+ years of experience on strong software teams

Experience with the highs and lows of building new products from scratch

A track record of growth in team leadership

That said, we deeply appreciate and admire people who take initiative to pursue problems & opportunities they care about, so we are always excited to meet folks who reach out even if they don’t fit that exact profile.

We don’t index on how familiar candidates are with our tech stack. That’s one of the benefits of hiring excellent engineers: we’re confident you’ll get up to speed and we’re confident the rest of the team can help you do it. That said, we want everyone to be excited about the environment and tool kit they’ll have on day one.

API language: Kotlin

Embedded components: React

API framework: Ktor

Database: Postgres (RDS)

ORM: Exposed

Testing: Kotest/JUnit