🚀 Senior Backend Engineer, Growth

Role overview Build backend features and run product experiments that help people discover and reconnect with friends in a social audio product. The work spans acquisition, onboarding, engagement, and content discovery, with a focus on measuring results and iterating quickly. You’ll partner with product, design, data science, engineering, and company leadership; the position is fully remote and open to candidates in the United States.

Responsibilities - Design and ship experiments across invitations, notifications, onboarding, reactivation, and ranking. - Improve ranking and personalization for content discovery and friend recommendations. - Build better notification targeting and frequency controls. - Instrument experiments with exposure tracking and guardrail metrics, analyze outcomes, and use findings to shape follow-up work. - Improve backend systems and an established codebase while balancing delivery speed, reliability, scalability, and maintainability. - Work with engineers and cross-functional partners to develop hypotheses, deliver features, and make experimentation faster and safer.

Requirements - At least four years of production backend engineering experience using Python or a similar language. - Experience with relational and NoSQL databases; examples in the source include PostgreSQL and DynamoDB. - Experience shipping consumer-product growth systems such as notifications, invitations, onboarding, or reactivation flows. - Product judgment: connect engineering work to growth and engagement measures, propose experiments, and make decisions based on results. - Ability to scope small releases, use feature flags, and evaluate experiments with reliable instrumentation and guardrails. - Strong written communication and collaborative working style, including comfort changing direction based on data and using AI coding tools in daily work.

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