Senior Backend Engineer, TypeScript, Prisma, Postgres

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November 7

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Prisma

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Education • Marketplace • Social Impact

Prisma is an innovative educational platform that provides a project-based virtual program for students in grades 4-12. Emphasizing personalized learning, Prisma equips children with skills and competencies vital for the future, fostering intrinsic motivation and collaboration through engaging workshops and a supportive community. Each student is paired with an experienced coach who guides their academic journey, ensuring they can explore their interests while developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

11 - 50 employees

📚 Education

🏪 Marketplace

🌍 Social Impact

📋 Description

• You’ll be part of our Prisma Data Platform team which is responsible for Accelerate , Prisma Postgres and the bare metal cloud that those products are build on. • You'll be contributing across the stack to the projects of the team. • Design, implement and deploy a websocket server that will allow customers to connect to Prisma Postgres from WASM environments where TCP connections are unavailable. • Work closely with the ORM team to define the protocol of that server so they can implement the client adapter. • Choose and deploy a globally distributed configuration store (like etcd, rqlite) for encrypted authentication secrets to enable global routing for Prisma Postgres. • Work together with an infra engineer to improve automation of our bare metal servers with the goal to reduce the provisioning time of new servers. • Troubleshoot and fix a bug where a customer experiences sporadic connectivity issues.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ Years experience in agile software engineering teams, delivering robust web applications, using TypeScript, NodeJS and golang. • Experience in building and scaling distributed systems. • Experience with bare metal servers is a plus. • Experience in database and backend technologies like SQL/NoSQL databases and familiarity with cloud services, APIs (GraphQL/REST). • High standards for quality, ensuring excellence while balancing pragmatism, purpose, and a strong sense of agency —taking ownership, making thoughtful trade-offs, and driving meaningful impact. • Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal—able to articulate complex ideas clearly, adapt messaging to different audiences, give and receive constructive feedback effectively, and foster collaboration across teams. • You have a structured thought process, approaching problems methodically and making well-reasoned decisions. • You plan effectively, setting clear goals, anticipating challenges, and ensuring smooth execution while keeping stakeholders aligned.

🏖️ Benefits

• Strong pay, full flexibility, and benefits that make a difference. • Generous Time Off , including twenty-four days of paid vacation and paid sick leave. • Parental Benefits , including twenty weeks of fully paid parental leave and child sick leave. • Sabbatical Leave , with six weeks of fully paid time off after three years of continuous employment. • Mental Health Support , including four fully paid Mental Health Days per year and access to professional resources. • Tech and Ergonomic Budget to equip you with the tools you need, plus an ergonomic chair subsidy for your comfort and well-being. • Annual Offsites , bringing the team together twice a year with all expenses paid retreats at exciting locations. • Relocation Support , offering a relocation package for team members moving to Berlin after twelve months, if you choose to relocate. • Health and Pension Benefits , including comprehensive health, dental, vision, and 401k matching.