Staff Backend Engineer

• 5000 - 6000 USD per Month
• Full Time
• Posted : 4 weeks ago

• Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions with our CTO and other engineering leaders, focusing on scalability and reliability. 
• Elevate the engineering team through close mentorship, implementing best practices, and coaching new hires. 
• Lead our cloud, infrastructure, and DevOps initiatives to maintain a smooth user and developer experience. 
• Architect and implement scalable backend systems to 10x the growth of Tango's platform. 
• Manage the full lifecycle of your code, from development to production, ensuring it supports high-scale use cases. 
• Lead the end-to-end design and execution of large-scale system architectures, ensuring the successful rollout of complex and innovative features. 

• You have 10+ years of professional experience in relevant software engineering roles, with a significant focus on backend development and database management. 
• You are an excellent communicator and take a collaborative approach to problem solving. 
• You are passionate about leading and growing a team of senior engineers. 
• You know what parts of your code require tests (and write those tests). 
• You are an expert in managing technical debt—if you choose not to avoid it, you encapsulate it. 
• You have product sense: you create more than beautiful code and can play a crucial role in choosing what we build and how we build it. 
• Above all else, you are a continuous learner and are excited to add new skills to your toolbox. We believe that the best engineers can learn new skills on the job. 

• Experience with AWS services common to serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, AppSync, API Gateway, DynamoDB, IAM, etc.)
• Experience using AWS AppSync, or ****have a strong interest in learning quickly. 
• Experience with authentication patterns using services such as AWS Cognito or Auth0. 
• Experience building GraphQL backends or comparable API development experience. 

• Experience with AWS CDK or Serverless framework. 
• Experience building Chrome extensions or expertise working with the DOM. 
• Experience building and monitoring serverless applications. 
• Experience developing and optimizing search and recommendation systems. 
• Experience writing type-safe code with TypeScript and creating unit and end-to-end tests with Jest and Cypress. 
• Experience supporting substantial applications with modern frontend frameworks like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Ember, etc. 

• You're a master of your craft and eager to share your knowledge to help others grow. 
• You embrace the growth mindset and refuse to settle for good enough. 
• You're fun! We're serious about not taking ourselves too seriously around here. 

Skills

• cdk
• Lambda
• graph ql
• dynamo DB
• Appsync