Senior Backend Engineer (Innovate)
Core
Design, ship, and operate high-risk backend experiments to validate bold product bets for a social discovery app, ensuring system resilience and scalability.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (Innovate Squad)
Builds
High-risk backend experiments, resilient event-driven systems, and reusable experimentation patterns.
Domain
Social networking / Gen Z social discovery / Event-driven architecture
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Node.js, TypeScript, API design, event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS), observability, system design, testing, code quality
Preferred skills
Scalable architecture design, mentoring peers, RFC-style structured decision-making
Technologies
Node.js, TypeScript, Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, NoSQL, relational databases, Datadog, Grafana
Responsibilities
Design and deliver backend capabilities from specs to production rollout/rollback; Define and instrument success metrics; Diagnose and fix complex production issues; Build resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient systems; Strengthen team-level best practices and reusable patterns.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
