Backend Engineer

🕒 September 11

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $115k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💸 Finance

💰 $5M Venture Round on 2021-05

Consulting • Marketing • Finance

Techstars is a global platform that helps entrepreneurs succeed through operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds. They offer a 3-month mentorship-driven accelerator program and a $120K investment along with access to a massive network of more than 3,700 mentors. Techstars has invested in over 3,000 companies across various tech-related verticals, such as SendGrid and DigitalOcean, and their accelerator companies have collectively raised over $28. 6 billion. They are known for promoting a Give First philosophy and focus on building startup communities worldwide, with programs like Startup Weekend and Startup Week enhancing access to entrepreneurship.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines across Techstars systems, including Salesforce, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and internal APIs • Own and evolve Kubernetes-based infrastructure using Helm, OpenTofu, and GitHub Actions • Manage deployment tooling, secrets management, and cluster health • Partner with the senior security engineer on incident response, observability, and infrastructure reliability • Maintain and improve the PostgreSQL database layer, including schema design, migrations, query performance, and data integrity • Support Salesforce data flows and platform integrations • Build and maintain internal tooling and integrations connecting third-party SaaS tools to Techstars OS • Contribute to CI/CD practices, testing, code review, and documentation • Work in an agile environment with product backlogs, sprints, and regular production delivery

🎯 Requirements

• Solid experience building and maintaining data pipelines, including ETL/ELT, data ingestion, transformation, and delivery to downstream consumers • Proficiency with PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, query optimization, and data modeling • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production, including Helm, kubectl, and debugging workloads • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as OpenTofu and Terraform • Strong Python skills for data engineering, scripting, and automation • Strong understanding of agentic development in a team environment • Familiarity with AWS services including S3, RDS, Lambda, and IAM • DevOps mindset with understanding of observability, reliability, and post-deployment operations • Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills • Experience working in agile development environments with a product team • Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) retirement plan • Paid time off

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