Software Engineer, Backend

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🕒 November 22, 2025

🏢🏡 New York City – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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11 - 50 employees

✨ The Creative Tool for Growth | Enrich your data, automate personalized outreach, and implement any idea for GTM

📋 Description

• Perform comprehensive analyses of our systems to identify and address performance bottlenecks. • Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for various components of our services • Advise other teams within engineering on scalable and performant feature design and implementation • Address critical scalability challenges such as sharding Postgres and Redis, splitting ECS tasks into multiple services to scale independently, and addressing Node event loop blockages.

🎯 Requirements

• A results-oriented mindset and a bias toward impact • Experience in API latency optimization • Experience with SQL and related technologies, preferably Postgres • Experience in a role with a focus on performance aspects • Experience in query optimization and schema design for relational databases and distributed search engines • Expertise in any of the following: Redis, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or Opensearch

🏖️ Benefits

• Customers love the product (100K+ users and growing) • Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here) • Well-resourced - We raised a $100M Series C in 2025 at a $3.1B valuation and are backed by world-class investors like Capital G (Google), Sequoia and Meritech