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Software Engineer, Backend

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130000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year
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Given our rapid growth over the past couple of years, we often have to solve pressing scaling problems to accommodate the increased load. As a Software Engineer on the Performance team, you'll be responsible for identifying these problems and then developing systems that optimize the throughput and reliability of our core systems. Strong candidates here will have a track record of solving large-scale systems problems and laying the foundation for performance observability.

Job Responsibility:

  • Perform comprehensive analyses of our systems to identify and address performance bottlenecks
  • Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for various components of our services
  • Advise other teams within engineering on scalable and performant feature design and implementation
  • Address critical scalability challenges such as sharding Postgres and Redis, splitting ECS tasks into multiple services to scale independently, and addressing Node event loop blockages

Requirements:

  • A results-oriented mindset and a bias toward impact
  • Experience in API latency optimization
  • Experience with SQL and related technologies, preferably Postgres
  • Experience in a role with a focus on performance aspects
  • Experience in query optimization and schema design for relational databases and distributed search engines
  • Expertise in any of the following: Redis, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or Opensearch

Nice to have:

  • Diversity of perspectives and interests
  • Experience working with systems & data at scale
  • Advanced proficiency in optimizing serverless workloads on AWS
  • Experience with our current tech stack: React, Typescript, Python
  • AWS services: Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch
  • IaC: Terraform
  • Deployment tools: CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright
  • Observability tools: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo
What we offer:
  • Offers Equity
  • All employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 21, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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