Senior generalist backend engineer to design, build, and ship backend features end-to-end, write well-tested code, improve systems and developer experience (CI, tooling), collaborate on product requirements, and participate in on-call incident response and postmortems.
Location: San Francisco, CA + Remote (preferably USA)
Type: Full-time
About the role
Generalist senior engineer with strong backend instincts. You’ll ship features end-to-end, collaborate across product and engineering, and catch problems before they reach production.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and ship backend features from idea to production
- Write clean, well-tested code and improve existing systems over time
- Collaborate on product requirements and translate them into robust implementations
- Improve developer experience: tooling, CI, test reliability, local environments
- Participate in on-call/incident response and drive postmortem follow-ups
Skills & qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Strong backend/product engineering fundamentals and ability to ship end-to-end
- Comfort debugging production issues and improving systems over time
- Good testing habits and code review judgment
- Clear written communication (PRs, docs, project updates)
Preferred qualifications (apply even if you meet only some):
- Experience owning a service or feature area (roadmap, reliability, quality bar)
- Experience improving developer experience (CI, tooling, build/test speed)
- Familiarity with distributed systems patterns (queues, retries, idempotency)
Logistics
- Location: San Francisco, CA and/or Remote (preferably USA)
- Work authorization: If you need sponsorship, apply anyway and we’ll discuss options
- Compensation/benefits: We’ll share details during the process
Apply
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