Staff Backend Engineer

November 4, 2023

Tango

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Description

• Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions with our CTO and other engineering leaders, focusing on scalability and reliability. • Elevate the engineering team through close mentorship, implementing best practices, and coaching new hires. • Lead our cloud, infrastructure, and DevOps initiatives to maintain a smooth user and developer experience. • Architect and implement scalable backend systems to 10x the growth of Tango's platform. • Manage the full lifecycle of your code, from development to production, ensuring it supports high-scale use cases. • Lead the end-to-end design and execution of large-scale system architectures, ensuring the successful rollout of complex and innovative features.

Requirements

• You have 10+ years of professional experience in relevant software engineering roles, with a significant focus on backend development and database management. • You are an excellent communicator and take a collaborative approach to problem solving. • You are passionate about leading and growing a team of senior engineers. • You know what parts of your code require tests (and write those tests). • You are an expert in managing technical debt—if you choose not to avoid it, you encapsulate it. • You have product sense: you create more than beautiful code and can play a crucial role in choosing what we build and how we build it. • Above all else, you are a continuous learner and are excited to add new skills to your toolbox. We believe that the best engineers can learn new skills on the job. • Experience with AWS services common to serverless architectures ( AWS Lambda, AppSync, API Gateway, DynamoDB, IAM, etc. ) • Experience using AWS AppSync , or ****have a strong interest in learning quickly. • Experience with authentication patterns using services such as AWS Cognito or Auth0. • Experience building GraphQL backends or comparable API development experience. • Experience with AWS CDK or Serverless framework. • Experience building Chrome extensions or expertise working with the DOM. • Experience building and monitoring serverless applications. • Experience developing and optimizing search and recommendation systems. • Experience writing type-safe code with TypeScript and creating unit and end-to-end tests with Jest and Cypress. • Experience supporting substantial applications with modern frontend frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Ember, etc.

Benefits

• Full Medical/Dental/Vision coverage with 100% employer contribution and an HSA for qualified plans • 4 free therapy sessions annually through Spring Health • Competitive compensation and annual equity refresh program • 401(k) plan • Work from anywhere in the US, with UberEats and Deskpass stipends—on us! • Generous annual stipend for Learning & Development • Unlimited PTO, 10 holidays, 6 personal volunteer days, birthdays off • Paid parental leave • Subsidized National Parks Annual Pass • Subsidized Roller Skates (yes, seriously)