Key skills
Sales
About this role
Role Overview
- Share the architectural load with founders and lead backend design and tradeoffs.
- Lay foundations for services, data models, and integrations that power a fast, interactive UX.
- Keep the surface area small while we learn, evolving deliberately as the product hardens.
- Work directly with customers and join sales conversations to keep choices pragmatic.
- Set how we build at this stage and mentor peers to raise the bar for pace and quality.
- Operate in greenfield with the need to build safeguards and instrumentation along the way.
- Form product opinions by regularly meeting with customers to understand needs, validate solutions, and close the loop on what we ship.
- Build our engineering and broader culture with care and intentionality.
Requirements
- Some combination of 8 to 12 years in backend or infrastructure work, recent staff scope, or a strong track record owning architecture for a new product.
- A proven track record of designing systems and supporting engineering teams to deliver while making reasonable decisions between quality and timelines.
- Significant experience working on greenfield engineering products with experience designing systems from scratch with graceful evolution.
- Experience at startups or a proven track record of excelling at work beyond the typical scope of an engineering role.
- Experience at startups or a proven track record of excelling at work beyond the typical scope of an engineering role.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package with founder shares versus options.
- 100% coverage of health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
- Flexible schedules & paid time off, parental leave, and a Work Life Improvement stipend to help you do great work.
- Sunday scaries free work environment and swag you’ll actually like.