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Senior hire: ️ Backend Engineering

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-28

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Join us as a senior backend engineering hire! If you have experience building reputed company and performant systems at reputed company, we'd love to chat. We're looking for someone who can continue meaningfully contributing to our codebase as our business scales. Our backend stack is Node (Typescript) on AWS.

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  • Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, handles shifting priorities fluidly, and interfaces effectively between backend and frontend

  • Worked with Node and AWS in a production setting

  • Proficient with Typescript (bonus)

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