Staff Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and enhance backend APIs, services, event-driven workflows, queues, background jobs, data models, caching strategies, and integrations.

• Take ownership of complex backend products and technical tasks from exploration through design, implementation, deployment, production support, and long-term maintenance.

• Lead technical initiatives with ambiguity by assessing risks, making practical trade-offs, and steering execution.

• Enhance reliability, scalability, performance, and operability through architecture, testing, database optimization, caching, monitoring, alerting, and incident follow-up.

• Troubleshoot intricate production issues across application code, databases, caches, queues, jobs, observability data, and request lifecycles.

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Data, Support, and other teams.

• Mentor engineers and elevate the quality standards across the team.

• Influence the technical foundation of TeamSnap’s product experience, concentrating on backend systems, APIs, services, data performance, reliability, observability, and production quality.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong expertise in Node and experience in building and maintaining production backend systems.

• Depth in staff-level backend engineering.

• Proven history of developing and managing high-scale APIs, services, distributed systems, or shared product capabilities in production.

• Proficient in backend technologies such as Node, TypeScript, Elixir, Ruby/Rails, Java, Go, Python, or similar.

• Solid knowledge of SQL and relational databases, including indexing, query optimization, migrations, profiling, data modeling, transactions, read/write patterns, and performance tuning.

• Practical understanding of service-oriented architecture, event-driven architecture, queues, background jobs, webhooks, Redis, or similar caching solutions.

• Familiarity with production infrastructure and platform concerns, including deployments, containers, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, networking fundamentals, observability, and operational debugging.

• Strong production ownership mindset utilizing logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, incident reviews, and system behavior.

• Ability to lead through influence, mentor engineers, facilitate technical decisions, communicate trade-offs clearly, and link backend choices to customer impact and business needs.

• Excellent interpersonal skills along with the ability to provide and receive constructive feedback.

• Familiarity with Elasticsearch, BigQuery, analytics pipelines, search infrastructure, reporting workflows, or high-volume data processing is advantageous.

• Responsible utilization of AI-assisted engineering workflows is a plus.

• Must be a permanent resident of the U.S.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote company / remote-first work environment.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Paid parental leave for all parents.

• 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Annual learning and development stipend of $1,500.

• Opportunities to travel to locations for all-company meetings and team events.

• Generous home office allowance.

• TeamSnap merchandise upon joining.

• $50 store credit on every work anniversary.

• Monthly reimbursement for health and wellness stipend.