Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 October 22, 2025

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Loot Labs, Inc

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2023

🛍️ eCommerce

🎮 Gaming

🌐 Web 3

💰 Seed Round on 2024-10

eCommerce • Gaming • Web 3

Loot Labs, Inc. is exploring the future of loot by creating innovative ways for individuals to acquire digital collectibles. With a focus on the digital realm, the company is dedicated to engaging users in the exciting world of collectible items through their platform.

📋 Description

• Design and scale the systems behind our products. • Lead architecture discussions, ship secure and performant APIs. • Collaborate closely across the stack. • Own the full system lifecycle from design to debugging to iteration. • Implement robust security, authentication/authorization, and data protection. • Maintain healthy production systems through CI/CD best practices, robust observability, and effective incident response.

🎯 Requirements

• Bring senior-level experience building production backend systems (typically 5+ years) • Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable backend services using AWS (DynamoDB, Lambda, S3, AppSync, Cognito, SQS) and SST (v2 and v3), with Infrastructure as Code best practices. • Develop and maintain GraphQL APIs and application logic in TypeScript • Lead system design, data modeling, and architectural decisions for scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability, owning solutions from planning through launch and iteration • Implement robust security, authentication/authorization, and data protection • Maintain healthy production systems through CI/CD best practices, robust observability, and effective incident response • Collaborate with frontend, product, and design to deliver backend systems that enable seamless user experiences • Bring strong product sense and user empathy. Always build with the *why* in mind, not just the *what* • Proactively communicate, raise concerns early, and solve problems with teammates • Balance speed and robustness, making pragmatic trade-offs to deliver value quickly without sacrificing quality • Mentor others, share knowledge, and help raise the technical bar • Experience with e-commerce systems, including payment processing, marketplaces, and order/fulfillment workflows (bonus) • Familiarity with blockchain, cryptocurrency, or digital collectibles (bonus) • Experience with OpenSearch / Elasticsearch (bonus) • Experience building internal tools (e.g., Retool) (bonus) • Experience with real-time and event-driven systems (bonus) • Experience with data scraping or browser automation (bonus) • Interest in collectibles, gaming, or creator platforms (bonus)

🏖️ Benefits

• You’ll own features end-to-end and see your impact in days, not months. • Work alongside people who ship fast and care about the details. • Take ownership in ambiguous situations and shape solutions collaboratively.