Senior / Staff Backend Engineer

Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that unlocks the ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle through the power of community. The role involves serving as a technology lead, making key decisions on backend design and data infrastructure, while collaborating with product and design teams to build out the platform.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as technology lead and own key decisions including the tech stack and strategy for backend design, data infrastructure, and machine learning investments
• Work directly with product, design, and other engineers to build out our platform
• Help establish and grow our engineering organization and mentor the next generation of technology leaders

Requirements:

• Have 5+ years of technical experience as a backend software engineer
• Have experience crafting robust backends and database structures that can both scale with user volume as well as business complexity
• Have some experience with devops (setting up CI/CD, containerization, etc.)
• Have worked with service providers like AWS, configured CDNs, used Heroku, etc
• Have demonstrated success operating as a tech lead on critical projects at previous roles
• Have prior experience at a high-growth stage company
• Are an entrepreneur at heart who is excited about bringing new experiences to the world
• Are motivated by consumer products and building platforms that become cornerstones of consumer behavior
• Have the ability to exercise strong judgment and make difficult technical tradeoff decisions
• Are an excellent listener and strong communicator, working well cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
• Are comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity
• Enjoy the process of making something new and unknown
• Have a pragmatic approach to engineering — you're not dogmatic and know how to choose the best tool or process for the job at hand
• Come to work with energy, humility, and positivity