🎉 Backend Engineer, Engagement

Role overview Build backend features for a consumer social product focused on live voice conversations and helping friend groups stay connected. As part of a small engagement team, you’ll work alongside mobile engineers and partners in product, design, and data science, using product data to understand how shipped work affects participation and retention.

Responsibilities - Build and ship backend capabilities for live rooms, reactions, clips, community groups, and replays. - Instrument features and work with data scientists on experiments when a launch calls for them. - Improve backend systems while balancing rapid product iteration with maintainability and scalability. - Partner with engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists to shape and deliver features. - Make pragmatic technical tradeoffs that keep work simple, measurable, and fit for future development.

Requirements - At least three years of backend engineering experience with a language such as Python or Ruby. - Experience with relational or NoSQL databases, such as PostgreSQL or DynamoDB. - Interest in building technical craft and systems thinking, with a habit of using AI coding tools and a considered view of their strengths and limits. - Ability to take work through to completion, navigate ambiguity, and seek help when needed. - Clear communication and collaborative judgment, including raising risks early and explaining tradeoffs. - Focus on shipping at an appropriate level of polish and assessing outcomes through user behavior and engagement or retention data.

Benefits and work setup - Fully remote role open to candidates across the United States.