Senior Backend Engineer

About the position

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with 5-8 years of experience to help mature our software systems and engineering practices. This is a critical hire to guide our technical direction, improve scalability, and mentor a growing team. You will be instrumental in establishing best practices for code quality, system design, and deployment processes as we scale. What will you be doing? Serve as a hands-on technical leader, contributing primarily to backend development while guiding the team on system architecture and design. Leverage your experience to improve code quality, manage technical debt, and implement scalable software practices. Work extensively with backend systems and columnar/OLAP databases like Clickhouse. Mentor junior engineers and help foster a culture of technical excellence and maturity within the engineering organization. Collaborate with the founding team to make key decisions on scalability and system reliability. What we are looking for 5 - 8 years of experience in fullstack or backend engineering at top tier companies (VC-backed or FAANG) Work experience Experience at known, top tech companies either tier 1 VC-backed or FAANG Currently an individual contributor (IC) Skills Experience with an OLAP or columnar database (e.g., ClickHouse) Experience designing and building scalable backend systems Experience mentoring others Schedule 5 days a week on site in SF, avoid candidates not currently in SF unless they explicitly expressed interest in moving here

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