Job Details

About The Role

Hiring a senior backend engineer to join our team and focus on system architecture for our most popular products.

Things you'll be working on

• Architecting and implementing backend systems in Typescript/Node
• Designing and building an ingestion pipeline for our analytics/insights products (note: keep original emphasis), with high availability targets
• Spiking on our CI/CD to improve stability
• Build out durable/distributed cart/hosting for our ecommerce product
• Deploying a multi-tenant Next.js app for shops in Cloudflare
• Mentoring junior engineers on best-practices

Looking For Someone Who

• Can be in office 3-4 days/week in San Francisco
• Has deep knowledge in distributed systems and SOA — load balancers, databases, queuing, caching, HTTP, APIs, high-availability, fault tolerance, redundancy
• Down to do full-stack work (including frontend even if it's not your main role)
• Is ALWAYS SHIPPING. We don't spend weeks planning features at Replo
• Has 4+ years of professional experience with production distributed systems, service oriented architecture
• Proficient in Typescript. If you have experience writing these systems in Python/Go/Java that's cool too, as long as you're willing to learn Typescript/Node
• Has a product and customer-focused mindset
• Has experience being burned by deployment and maintenance issues. If you have a strong opinion on how backend systems should be built, that's good
• Values writing clean, maintainable software, including documentation
• Is comfortable with ambiguity and defining software architecture patterns to solve customer pain points

Bonus points if you

• Have started a company before
• Enjoy attending hackathons
• Worked at an early-stage startup previously
• Have not wasted hours interview-prepping on Leetcode
• Have an eye for visual design or past experience in product design, Figma, etc

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology
• Software Development

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