Job Description
Backend Engineer — Systems & Product Engineering
nWe build software for problems that are not always solved by reaching for another framework or adding another API endpoint.
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nOur primary backend stack is TypeScript and Python . They're excellent languages for the kind of product development we do, and we use them extensively.
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nBut we're looking for engineers who are interested in more than the stack.
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nWe want people who enjoy understanding how things work, who can reason about systems, who learn technologies because they're curious, and who can take an ambiguous problem and turn it into a good engineering solution.
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n Minimum Experience: 2 Years .
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n What you'll work on
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nYou'll design and build backend systems that need to be:
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- Reliable under real-world failure modes n
- Observable and debuggable n
- Efficient at scale n
- Easy enough to evolve n
- Thoughtfully designed rather than assembled from frameworks n
- Capable of handling problems where the obvious solution isn't necessarily the right one n

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nYour day-to-day work will primarily involve TypeScript, Python, databases, distributed systems, APIs, queues, storage, networking, and cloud infrastructure .
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nDepending on the problem, we may also use other technologies. If some other language ( cough cough go, rust, or even mojo) turns out to be better for the job, we have no problem incorporating it. Language is a tool. We care about whether you can choose and use the right tool.
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n What we're looking for
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nWe're particularly interested in engineers who:
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- Think in terms of systems and trade-offs n
- Can design a backend system from first principles when required n
- Understand concurrency, networking, databases, caching, queues, and failure modes n
- Are comfortable reading documentation, source code, and technical papers when necessary n
- Can learn an unfamiliar technology and become productive with it quickly n
- Enjoy solvin

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