Founding Backend Engineer — Product Infrastructure & Data
Core
Founding backend engineer responsible for owning and improving the product infrastructure and data systems for a travel content organization platform.
Role type
Founding Backend Engineer (Product Infrastructure & Data)
Builds
Structured travel cards, maps, itineraries, and shareable trip data from social content.
Domain
Travel technology, data architecture, and content processing.
Required skills
TypeScript, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, API design, authentication and authorization, background jobs and queues, logging and monitoring, automated testing, data migrations
Preferred skills
Next.js, geospatial data, map APIs
Responsibilities
Redesign data architecture for canonical places and user cards, improve content capture pipeline reliability, design secure APIs and access controls, define behavioral event models, implement background processing and error recovery
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC (via careerplan.io/jobs/3768862-founding-backend-engineer-product-infrastructure-data-at-palette)
