Staff Backend Engineer, Connect (API Platform)

Location: Remote - United States & Canada

Department: Engineering

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

About the role

Some of the things you’ll do:

• Build the system, and the relationships, that let any team at Quo add their feature to the public API in a day or two, then get the rest of engineering to actually use it
• Own the long-term architecture for the API platform. Python and TypeScript SDKs are on the roadmap for Q4, and the longer-term model is Stripe's: product teams describe their surface, the API and SDKs are generated from it, and an ecosystem grows around it
• Be the technical point of contact for partnerships, product and leadership on what the API and integrations can do, set expectations, and protect the roadmap when a request would derail it
• Mentor the senior engineers on the team through design reviews, PR reviews and coaching. You'll write less code than a senior, on purpose
• Keep the platform fast, reliable and observable as traffic keeps climbing

How the team works:

Tech Stack & Tools:

• Node and TypeScript on the backend
• Event-driven microservices with Temporal and RabbitMQ at the centre
• Kubernetes on AWS
• Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Redis
• Datadog for observability
• Web (React), iOS and Android clients on the other side of the API

About you

• 10+ years in engineering with real time at staff level. You've done this job before, at least once, and you want to be a technical leader rather than a manager
• You've built or owned a public API, developer platform, SDKs or webhooks for a product people pay for. Dev tooling backgrounds count
• You've driven a big cross-team change at a company with 80+ engineers, by getting the right people in each team on board rather than posting a doc and hoping
• You've worked through the stage Quo is at now: Series B into growth, 100 to 300 engineers, process being built and rebuilt. Ideally you've taken a company a step past where we are and know what works
• You're comfortable owning infrastructure alongside application code. This isn't a platform engineering role, but you shouldn't flinch at it
• You communicate clearly in writing and in person, and you're comfortable building rapport across teams

Compensation

• SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Boston, New York and Washington DC Metro: $205,000 to $242,000 USD
• All other US locations: $186,000 to $217,000 USD
• Canada: $189,000 to $222,000 CAD