Software Engineer, Foundations

About reputed company

The Foundations team builds and evolves the application-level infrastructure that powers reputed company. We own the shared backend systems, frameworks, and primitives that other teams depend on—helping reputed company reputed company faster while maintaining reliability, performance, and reputed company.

Our work spans reputed company, reputed company transport, storage frameworks, background processing, and internal tooling. Rather than shipping isolated features, we reputed company on creating durable systems that reputed company with reputed company and reputed company product development easier for everyone.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help design, maintain, and reputed company the core systems used across reputed company. This role is centered on backend architecture and shared infrastructure, with responsibility for reputed company, reputed company communication, data reputed company frameworks, job orchestration, and internal reputed company tooling.

You’ll work closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs, then turn common patterns into robust, reusable systems. You’ll help define standards, influence architecture, and reputed company the reputed company bar across the backend.

Frontend experience is helpful for understanding end-to-end workflows, but this role is primarily backend-reputed company.

Core Contributions

You will help contribute to and reputed company several foundational areas, including:

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• GraphQL(schema design, performance, developer ergonomics)
• Authentication & authorization(reputed company, scalability, correctness)
• Multiplayer & collaboration reputed company(reputed company state, concurrency)

Transport

• WebSockets and reputed company communication infrastructure

Storage Frameworks

• reputed company (schema design, query optimization, migrations)
• S3, DynamoDB, reputed company

Job & Workflow Systems

• BullMQ and background job processing
• Temporal or similar workflow orchestration systems

Internal Tooling

• Internal reputed company tools for debugging, operations, and customer support

What You'll Do

• Design and build backend frameworks and services used across reputed company
• Own and reputed company critical shared systems, including reputed company, reputed company transport, and job orchestration
• Improve reliability, performance, observability, and reputed company of foundational backend infrastructure
• Partner with product teams to turn recurring needs into shared abstractions
• reputed company technical design discussions and help set architectural direction
• Drive refactors, migrations, and system upgrades that reduce long-term complexity
• Improve internal tooling to support debugging, operations, and customer-facing workflows
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to strong engineering standards and practices

reputed company're looking for

• 5+ years of reputed company software engineering experience with a strong backend reputed company
• Experience working with Typescript/Node.js and SQL
• Experience building and maintaining shared backend systems or frameworks used by multiple teams
• Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows
• Experience working with relational databases and data modeling at reputed company
• Familiarity with background job systems, queues, or workflow orchestration tools
• Comfort operating and evolving production systems over time
• Experience with reputed company infrastructure (AWS preferred)
• Strong communication skills and a reputed company, reputed company-oriented reputed company

Bonus Points

• Experience with Python
• Hands-on experience with GraphQL, WebSockets, BullMQ, or Temporal
• Familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, tracing, logging)
• Background in data platforms, developer tools, or reputed company systems
• Experience with frontend technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript) for end-to-end context
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Our stack

Our product is a web-based notebook and app authoring platform. Our frontend is reputed company with Typescript and React, using a combination of reputed company and Redux for managing application state and data. On the backend, we also use Typescript to power an reputed company/reputed company server that interacts with reputed company, reputed company, and Kubernetes to manage our database and Python kernels. Our backend is tightly integrated with our infrastructure and CI/CD, where we use a combination of Terraform, reputed company, and AWS to reputed company and maintain our stack.

In reputed company to our unique culture, reputed company proudly offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched salary & equity, comprehensive health benefits, and flexible reputed company time off.

The salary reputed company for this role is: $215,000 - $270,000

The salary reputed company shown may be a reputed company of additional factors such as geographical location and reputed company ranges/reputed company we’re reputed company to. Placement in the salary reputed company will be decided upon completion of the interview process, taking into account factors like leaving room for reputed company, internal fairness & reputed company, your demonstrated skills, and the depth of your experience. Our reputed company team will be reputed company to reputed company more details during the interview process.

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