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Backend Engineer

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In-Office
San Francisco, CA
140K-200K Annually
Mid level
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San Francisco, CA
140K-200K Annually
Mid level
Build core platform features and full‑stack product work using Next.js and TypeScript, design database schemas and Temporal workflows, improve performance and automation, and contribute to architecture.
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Mission

  • Build core platform features that align with needs for Fortune 500 and fast-growing AI companies like Greptile, Julius, Render, SoFi, and more

  • Translate business problems to technical implementation

Outcomes

  • Speed up latency by XXXms

  • Reduce user workload by X hours/week through automations

  • Build features that users don’t know they want by understanding their goals and finding better ways to get to their goals

  • Ship full-stack product features with Next.js + TypeScript

  • Design clean database schemas and queries

  • Build long-lasting Temporal workflows for complex business logic

  • Develop responsive, accessible UI components

  • Contribute to architectural and tech choices

Competencies

  • Customer empathy

  • 3+ years of experience

  • Exceptional problem-solving and analytical ability

  • High agency–founded something in the past or worked on side project in the past

  • Learns fast, thrives in ambiguity

  • Spiky in one area (ex frontend/design, backend, databases)

  • Intelligence, drive, values

  • Knowledge of distributed systems

Bonus Points:

  • Temporal experience

  • Knowledge in marketing technology and content management systems (CMS)

Top Skills

Next.Js,Typescript,Temporal
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