Staff Backend Engineer – Platform & Domain Foundations

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🌐 Canada, Brazil – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Skillshare

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2010

📚 Education

🏪 Marketplace

👥 B2C

Education • Marketplace • B2C

Skillshare is an online learning community and subscription-based platform offering thousands of short, project-based classes focused primarily on creative skills such as illustration, graphic design, photography, video, animation, and freelancing. It connects learners with industry practitioners who publish courses, supports offline viewing and community interaction, and offers both individual memberships and team (enterprise) plans. The service functions as a marketplace for teachers and students, emphasizing hands-on, practical learning and continuous creative development.

📋 Description

• Shape backend architecture and domain models, including bounded contexts, aggregates, domain events, and service boundaries • Build and evolve TypeScript/NestJS services using Domain-Driven Design and ports-and-adapters patterns • Own GraphQL API contracts, Postgres data models, and safe evolution patterns • Build reliable event-driven systems designed for durability, idempotency, retries, and distributed-system realities • Use an AI coding harness as a core development tool and improve context, standards, tests, and guardrails • Raise engineering quality through code reviews, testing, technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and decision records • Turn ambiguous product needs into well-designed systems in partnership with product and engineering teammates • Work within the weekly delivery cadence, moving foundational work from Monday goals to Friday demos

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building backend systems in production • Deep TypeScript and Node.js experience • Hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design, including bounded contexts, aggregate boundaries, value objects, and domain events • Understanding of hexagonal architecture / ports and adapters • Strong experience designing and owning GraphQL APIs • Knowledge of schema modeling, batching, N+1 problem, pagination, error semantics, and live schema evolution • Experience designing event-driven and distributed systems • Knowledge of at-least-once delivery, idempotency, ordering, retries, transactional boundaries, and transactional outbox patterns • Strong relational data modeling and SQL fundamentals • Experience with schema design, live-data migrations, indexing, transaction boundaries, and intentional read/write path design • Experience with NestJS or significant production experience in another modern Node.js backend framework such as Fastify, Express, Hono, AdonisJS, or tRPC • Highly proficient with AI coding tools such as Claude Code or a comparable agentic coding harness • Ability to direct, review, and improve AI-generated code while owning architecture, context, quality, and final results • Strong testing instincts and ability to design testable systems • Ability to use fast implementations or test doubles and reserve integration testing for system seams • Exceptional written and visual communication of technical decisions • Experience with architecture decision records, domain glossaries, system diagrams, data and event flows, and technical standards • High degree of autonomy in solving ambiguous product or technical problems • Ability to maintain working-hour overlap with the US-based team until at least 1:00 PM Eastern each day • Strong written communication and ability to leave clear context for asynchronous collaboration

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work • Home office stipends • Co-working spaces in multiple cities • Unlimited vacation policy with a required minimum • Work-life balance support • Unlimited PTO • Gender-neutral parental leave • Anniversary sabbaticals • Healthy stipends for creativity, learning, and personal wellness • Opportunities to collaborate across marketing, brand, product, and engineering teams • Inclusive work environment