Intermediate Backend Engineer, AMER

Own and Ship Features: Design, implement, test, and ship backend features and improvements with minimal guidance, working in Ruby/Rails, Go, or any other modern languages.

Build for Production: Write maintainable, secure, observable, and performant code. Design and maintain APIs, background jobs, integrations, and bounded service functionality, and work with data models, migrations, indexes, and query behavior.

Test and Review: Add and improve automated coverage — unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end where appropriate — and review others’ code for correctness, maintainability, security, performance, and operational risk.

Operate What You Build: Investigate build, test, deployment, and runtime failures at the feature boundary, identify technical debt and propose practical improvements, and take part in on-call or operational support where your team’s ownership model requires it.

Leverage AI: Use AI productively in daily work, validate what it produces, and understand where its limitations matter.

Backend Fundamentals: Professional experience building and shipping production backend applications, with strong programming, API, database, testing, debugging, and performance fundamentals.

Adaptability: Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go, or any other modern backend language. We value the ability to learn and adapt over mastery of a single language.

Feature Ownership: The ability to take a feature from clarification through delivery and follow-up, working independently while seeking input at the right time.

Practical Judgment: Sound instincts about security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational risk, plus an understanding of modular backend boundaries and the consequences of coupling.

Clear Communication: Strong written communication and effective collaboration in a remote, asynchronous environment.

AI Fluency: Practical experience with AI coding tools, including the ability to review and correct what they generate.

Production Go services, APIs, concurrency, profiling, or gRPC.

Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, or cloud deployment.

Rust, particularly for systems, security, performance, or platform work.

PostgreSQL, schema evolution, caching, queues, messaging, or event-driven workflows.

Observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.

Contributing to a modular monolith, bounded context, shared component, or independently operated service.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

Flexible Paid Time Off

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

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