Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Laurel is an AI Time platform company helping professional services firms capture, analyze, and optimize work time. The Staff Backend Engineer will architect and develop reliable backend systems, improve performance and scalability, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and contribute to product and customer-focused technical solutions.
Responsibilities
- Architect and Develop: Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and extremely reliable code across our backend components of our applications
- Collaborate: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to gather requirements, define technical specifications and measures of success, and deliver high-quality software solutions
- Optimize: Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues. Continuously improve performance, scalability, and security of our applications
- Mentor: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the team
- Innovate: Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and proactively suggest improvements and new features to enhance our products
- Test and Deploy: Implement automated testing and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure robust and reliable software releases
- Work with Product and Customer Success teams to flesh out business requirements and designs for those requirements and systems
- Participate in an on call rotation
- Connect: We want you not just to build but to •engage• with our product and our users. Your input and opinion will be highly valuable and it is expected that you have many thoughts on how things should be done and why
Skills
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience: 6+ years of professional experience in Backend Software development. Full Stack knowledge is a plus. Ideal candidates will have a solid understanding of modern web technologies and be comfortable working with large-scale data systems
- We expect you to have •deep knowledge and understanding•, as well as •strongly-held opinions• about some of the below technologies (or similar). We want to hear your thoughts on best practices, patterns, code smells, ways to improve performance, etc. What things would you teach our other engineers? What has bitten you in the past? What things help you •consistently• deliver software that is of the •highest• quality, and why?
- Required: Strong understanding of Typescript, Node.js, messaging queues (ie. AWS SQS), MongoDB
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and creatively
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
- Proven ability to engage with customers and understand their needs
- ### Location: Hybrid in Los Angeles / San Francisco / New York, working Tuesday - Thursday in office. We will hire remote in the US / Canada for extraordinary candidates
- We are not able to support visa sponsorship or relocation assistance
- Experience in AI is preferred
- Full Stack knowledge is a plus
- Nice to have: Experience with Python (Django, FastAPI, or Flask)
- Familiarity with Airflow, PostgreSQL and NestJS
Benefits
- Generous equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with covered premiums
- 401(k)
- Wellness stipends
- Commuter stipends
- FSA stipends
- Take all the time you need when you or your child are sick on a workday
- Remote work in the US or Canada for extraordinary candidates
- Bi-annual, in-person company off-sites in unique locations
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