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Engineering Full-time

Senior Backend Engineer

Own platform services that route, store and process millions of customer conversations daily.

LocationRemote
TypeFull-time
Compensation$95k, $145k + equity

About the role

Our backend processes 50M+ messages a month across WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram and voice. You'll own the services that route, persist and stream them.

We use a polyglot stack, Go for hot paths, Node and Python for product surfaces, Postgres + Redis + ClickHouse for storage. You'll have opinions about all of it.

Strong preference for engineers who care about both correctness and shipping speed. We move fast but never on top of broken foundations.

What you'll do

  • Design, build and operate platform services (messaging, agents, integrations)
  • Own performance and reliability of mission-critical paths
  • Build APIs that other teams (and external developers) love using
  • Mentor engineers on system design and code review
  • On-call rotation (1 week every 6)

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years backend engineering at a high-throughput product
  • Expert in at least one of: Go, Node, Python
  • Strong with PostgreSQL, Redis and at least one queue (Kafka, NATS)
  • Have shipped and operated production services with paging incidents
  • Care about API design, developer experience and observability

Perks & benefits

Remote-firstEquity packageHealth insurance$1.5k learning budgetOn-call comp

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