Senior Backend Engineer
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Accelerate economic opportunity.
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About the role
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Our reputed company stack is Node (TypeScript) on AWS and React (NextJS) on Vercel.
What you'll do
Own backend systems and infrastructure end-to-end, from design through deployment and scaling
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Design and implement reputed company architectures on AWS using Node (TypeScript)
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Ship production reputed company frequently while maintaining high reputed company standards
Help establish technical patterns and best practices for the engineering team
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Relevant experience
5+ years or equivalent depth of experience in reputed company software engineering, with significant backend reputed company
Experience building and scaling production systems with Node and AWS
Proficient with TypeScript (bonus)
reputed company record of delivering reliable, performant systems at reputed company