Senior Backend Engineer
Department: Engineering
Location: New York City
Compensation: $165K – $230K • Offers Equity
Employment Type: FullTime
Position Summary
We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to be the scaling expert behind our core systems. You’ll drive architectural decisions that balance “what must work today” with “what must scale tomorrow,” owning systems that are low-latency, resilient, and cost-aware.
What we’re looking for
TS-first backend: Expert in Node/Typescript services; bonus points for production Go.
Systems & scale: Deep grasp of memory management, distributed systems, durable execution, and edge functions.
Queues & state: Hands-on with Temporal (or equivalent durable workflows) and Redis at scale.
Cloud & reliability: Comfortable shipping/operating in modern cloud environments with strong observability habits.
LLM-aware: Familiarity with LLM integrations and their operational quirks is a plus.
Product sense: You make pragmatic tradeoffs, communicate risk clearly, and choose designs that unblock the roadmap.
Opinionated: Deep level of understanding of the technological landscape, making both high level system and granular code design decisions based on understanding rather than preference - diving deep on unknown patterns in order to build the best product.
Responsibilities
Architect, build, and operate backend services that are fast, fault-tolerant, and easy to evolve.
Define service boundaries, data models, and contracts that keep teams moving independently.
Establish performance baselines and SLOs; design for durability and graceful degradation.
Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers across code quality, testing, and ops.
Own critical systems: queue orchestration (Temporal), caching (Redis), and infra automation.
Nice to have
Prior work with agentic/LLM workflows
Logistics
Compensation: $165K - $230K salary, $100K-200K equivalent in new hire equity (4 year vest)
Location: New York City. We are a fully in-office team working out of Midtown Manhattan Monday through Friday. We allow for WFH days when anyone is traveling, but we do not allow for permanent remote work.
Benefits:
Generous health, dental, and vision insurance
401k with 3% automatic contribution (no vesting)
Paid Lunches
Wellness and Citi Bike benefit
Unlimited PTO
There are more than 50,000 engineering jobs:
Subscribe to membership and unlock all jobs
Engineering Jobs
60,000+ jobs from 4,500+ well-funded companies
Updated Daily
New jobs are added every day as companies post them
Refined Search
Use filters like skill, location, etc to narrow results
Become a member
🥳🥳🥳 452 happy customers and counting...
Overall, over 80% of customers chose to renew their subscriptions after the initial sign-up.
To try it out
For active job seekers
For those who are passive looking
Cancel anytime
Frequently Asked Questions
- We prioritize job seekers as our customers, unlike bigger job sites, by charging a small fee to provide them with curated access to the best companies and up-to-date jobs. This focus allows us to deliver a more personalized and effective job search experience.
- We've got over 200,000 jobs from 15,000+ vetted companies. No fake or sleazy jobs here!
- We aggregate jobs from 15,000+ companies' career pages, so you can be sure that you're getting the most up-to-date and relevant jobs.
- We're the only job board *for* software engineers, *by* software engineers… in case you needed a reminder! We add thousands of new jobs daily and offer powerful search filters just for you. 🛠️
- Every single hour! We add 2,000-3,000 new jobs daily, so you'll always have fresh opportunities. 🚀
- Typically, job searches take 3-6 months. EchoJobs helps you spend more time applying and less time hunting. 🎯
- Check daily! We're always updating with new jobs. Set up job alerts for even quicker access. 📅
What Fellow Engineers Say