Senior Backend Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Hiring a senior backend engineer to join our team and focus on system architecture our most popular products. THINGS YOU'LL BE WORKING ON Architecting and implementing backend systems in Typescript/Node is the core of what you’ll be doing. Real examples include — - Designing and building an ingestion pipeline for our analytics/insights products (> 99.99% uptime on Kafka, Clickhouse, Redis) - Spiking on our CI/CD to improve stability - Build out durable/distributed cart/hosting for our ecommerce product - Deploying a multi-tenant NextJS app for shops in Cloudflare - Mentoring junior engineers on best-practices LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO - Can be in office 3-4 days/week in San Francisco - Has deep knowledge in distributed systems and SOA — load balancers, databases, queuing, caching, HTTP, APIs, high-availability, fault tolerance, redundancy, at-least-two-of-everything - Down to do full-stack work (including frontend even if it's not your main role) - Is ALWAYS SHIPPING. We don't spend weeks planning features at Replo - Has 4+ years of professional experience with production distributed systems, service oriented architecture - Proficient in Typescript. If you have experience writing these systems in Python/Go/Java that’s cool too, as long as you’re willing to learn Typescript/Node — the learning curve on writing TS isn’t that high for high-caliber engineers. Experience or working knowledge of React is great too, but we can teach you that if we need to - Has a product and customer-focused mindset - Has experience being burned by deployment and maintenance issues. If you have a a strong opinion on how backend systems should be built, that’s good - Values writing clean, maintainable software, including documentation (e.g. the code needs to be correct and run fast, but we’re the ones that have to read it and understand it) - Is comfortable with ambiguity and defining software architecture patterns to solve customer pain points BONUS POINTS IF YOU - Have started a company before - Enjoy attending hackathons - Worked at an early-stage (Series A or earlier) startup previously - Have not wasted hours interview-prepping on Leetcode - Have an eye for visual design (or past experience in product design, Figma, etc)