Senior Software Engineer

Role Overview We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a strong backend background, comfortable in a product-driven environment with changing priorities and a high level of ownership. This is a backend-first role (~70%) with occasional frontend tasks (~30%) when features require touching UI or integrating SDKs. Success means owning the technical side end-to-end: shaping technical solutions under uncertainty, taking responsibility for system behavior in production, and contributing to long-term platform evolution alongside Product Managers, the Engineering Manager, and other senior engineers. Key Responsibilities Design and implement backend-heavy features using TypeScript and Node.js; build and evolve REST APIs with focus on correctness, consistency, and clear boundaries between services Work with SQL (PostgreSQL): data modeling, migrations, and consistency guarantees Take full ownership of one or more services, from requirements and implementation to production support, and drive integration work with external partners (vendors, clients) when needed Own production behavior: investigate incidents, debug API failures, analyze data issues, and apply reliability patterns (timeouts, retries, idempotency, graceful degradation) Improve observability (logs, metrics, visibility into system behavior) and propose improvements where reliability, performance, or monitoring is weak Participate in tech spikes: explore unclear problems and turn them into concrete technical plans Collaborate with Product and EM to clarify requirements and reduce ambiguity early; contribute to tec

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