Software Engineer, Backend

The role

Responsibilities

• Own feature delivery from kickoff through post-launch support, including release planning, branch strategy, canary, and automated rollback.
• Write production-ready code with meaningful metrics, traces, logs, and at least 80% automated test coverage.
• Maintain service SLOs with alerts and dashboards; participate in on-call and contribute actionable post-mortem follow-ups.
• Author design documents that account for cost, scale, and rollback; connect work to OKRs or user metrics.
• Facilitate design and planning meetings, collaborate with adjacent teams, and mentor interns or new hires.

Required experience and capabilities

• Strong programming skills in one or more modern backend languages; .NET Core/C# is preferred.
• Experience building and shipping production software collaboratively.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL/SQL and high-volume data stores.
• Understanding of testing, debugging, code review, and software development best practices.
• Independent delivery of small-to-medium features from design through deployment within a sprint cadence.
• Familiarity with on-call responsibilities, runbooks, and operational reliability.
• Clear communication, adaptability, and ability to execute loosely scoped work with moderate guidance.

Technology stack

• The stated technology stack includes .NET Core (C#), SQL/Postgres, ClickHouse, AWS, and DataDog.

Bonus experience

• Cloud platforms, distributed systems, developer workflow improvements, documentation, or internal tooling are bonuses.
• Real-time bidding, ad serving, or similar latency-sensitive, high-throughput systems experience is a plus.

Compensation

• Base salary is listed as $130,000–$170,000 USD plus equity; the description does not state a pay cadence.

Workplace

• The role uses a hybrid work model.

Benefits

• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid parental leave, unlimited PTO, equity, a wellness stipend, commuter benefits, and retirement-plan matching.