Staff Backend Engineer

10+ years of professional experience in backend development and database management Excellent communicator and collaborative problem solver Passionate about leading and growing a team of senior engineers Obsessive about quality and performance measurement Expert in managing technical debt Possess product sense Continuous learner Experience with AWS services common to serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, AppSync, API Gateway, DynamoDB, IAM, etc.) Experience building GraphQL backends or comparable API development experience Experience with authentication patterns using services such as AWS Cognito, Auth0 or Okta Experience with TypeScript, Node.js and testing frameworks like Jest, Vitest, Cypress, or Playwright

Lead the end-to-end design and execution of large-scale system architectures Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions Architect and implement scalable backend systems Elevate the engineering team through mentorship and best practices Lead cloud, infrastructure, and DevOps initiatives Manage the full lifecycle of code Champion performance profiling, automated testing and observability