Full Stack Engineer – Backend Focus

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🌐 United States, Canada, +1 more countries – Remote

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💵 $150k - $200k / year

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Commons

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11 - 50 employees

🌍 Social Impact

Social Impact

Commons is a software development company focused on creating practical tools that promote a more sustainable lifestyle. Their flagship app turns every purchase into a climate action opportunity, facilitating carbon footprint tracking and supporting users in making environmentally conscious decisions through social networking features. With a commitment to clean technology, Commons aims to engage users in the fight against the climate crisis.

📋 Description

• Build features end to end, from database to UI, and review pull requests • Design and evolve core data models and review migrations • Own third-party integrations and make build-versus-buy decisions • Run CI/CD using GitHub Actions and CircleCI • Manage monitoring with New Relic and Sentry • Maintain infrastructure on Render, Postgres, and Redis • Lead infrastructure-related outages and escalations • Keep dependencies up to date and simplify the technology stack • Work with the data team to improve privacy and security practices • Help build AI coding tools and workflows across the team • Lead backend architecture and own backend and platform decisions • Collaborate with product, design, marketing, and data teams on new features and capabilities • Explain technical decisions in code reviews and design discussions • Build across frontend, backend, mobile, and web surfaces as needed

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years building production software across the stack, with most depth on the backend; fewer years may be considered with the right experience • Experience building and shipping features end to end • Experience building backend systems from the ground up and owning production at a startup • Experience setting up CI, adding monitoring, and responding to outages or emergencies • Strong knowledge of Postgres, including designing schemas from scratch and running migrations on active systems • Experience building and maintaining third-party integrations and making build-versus-buy decisions • Serious commitment to data security and privacy • Deep experience with AI and agentic coding tools • Ability to explain technical tradeoffs to nontechnical audiences • Interest in tackling new and different problems • Preference for an individual contributor role rather than management • Must provide work authorization information and location during application

🏖️ Benefits

• 0.2% – 0.5% equity • Remote work arrangement • Opportunity to grow in influence and scope • Collaborative distributed engineering team • Daily Slack and video collaboration