Staff Backend Engineer
October 10
📋 Description
• Design and scale backend systems, APIs, and services for our open-source platform. • Build world-class developer interfaces: APIs, SDKs, UIs, and a runtime that delights developers. • Collaborate directly with customers to solve integration challenges. • Optimize performance, scalability, and reliability across backend services. • Shape the roadmap and company strategy with high ownership of key decisions. • Engage with the open-source community, owning and maintaining our repo.
🎯 Requirements
• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with proven ability to scale high-traffic systems. • Deep experience with developer infrastructure, APIs, databases, and performance-critical systems. • Passion for developer tools, best practices, and building outstanding DX. • Comfortable with Node.js and modern backend stacks. • Strong communicator, proactive, and reliable in a remote-first environment. • Product mindset and developer empathy: you optimize for DX. • Pragmatic, positive, and low ego: you step up in incidents and unblock teammates. • Startup-ready: autonomous, ownership-driven, and able to navigate ambiguity.
🏖️ Benefits
• We aim to pay top-tier salaries among seed-stage startups, based on the team member location.
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