Key skills
GraphQLJavaJavaScriptNode.jsNoSQLPostgresPythonTypeScriptGoRESTfulPerformance Optimization
About this role
Role Overview
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that power the Hook product
- Partner closely with frontend engineers to define and implement clean, efficient API contracts
- Architect systems that support high-throughput content creation, media processing, and social interactions
- Optimize performance, reliability, and latency across core product flows
- Contribute to database design, schema evolution, and data modeling decisions
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure system health and observability
- Participate in technical design discussions and help shape long-term backend architecture
- Support experimentation and rapid iteration by building flexible, modular systems
Requirements
- 3+ years of backend engineering experience building production systems
- Strong experience designing and maintaining RESTful or GraphQL APIs
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Go, or Java)
- Experience working with relational databases (e.g., Postgres) and/or NoSQL systems
- Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and performance optimization
- Experience collaborating closely with frontend and product teams
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
Tech Stack
- GraphQL
- Java
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- NoSQL
- Postgres
- Python
- TypeScript
- Go
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Meaningful equity ownership
- Opportunity to help build a category-defining social music platform.