Engineering Leader Back-End

Sierra Ventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Joy in San Francisco seeks an engineering leader to build and guide a team delivering backend features powering Joy APIs used by millions. You will mentor engineers, define best practices, and collaborate with product and CX to align with customer needs.

You will hire and grow engineers, ensuring high quality, secure, and scalable services while fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 3+ years leading an engineering team.
• Proven track record hiring and developing engineers.
• Experience with Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript.
• Building secure, high-performing REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Strong SQL and NoSQL knowledge (Firebase, PostgreSQL).
• Strong debugging of complex apps.
• Startup experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of engineers to deliver backend features.
• Collaborate with product and CX to understand customers.
• Partner with frontend, backend, and mobile teams on microservices APIs.
• Mentor team members to be independent and proficient.
• Ensure correctness, maintainability, and performance of Joy API.

Skills

Leadership

Node.js

JavaScript

TypeScript

REST/GraphQL APIs

SQL/NoSQL

Firebase

PostgreSQL

Debugging

Hiring/Retaining talent

Startup experience

Education

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Firebase

PostgreSQL

Job description

Joy is growing, and we’re looking for talented engineering leaders.

In this role, you will build and lead a team of engineers. Your team will be entrusted to implement features of all sizes. You will partner closely with our product and CX teams to understand our customers, then collaborate with other frontend, back-end, and mobile engineers to build high-scale microservices APIs that power beautiful user experiences. You will guide your team members and mentor them and you use your collective extensive knowledge of backend systems to improve Joy API, a complex system which backs our client applications used and loved by millions. You'll make sure that the team engineers for correctness, maintainability, and performance while delighting couples and guests by making their working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. You will hire and grow engineers on your team to be independent and proficient at their jobs. Your team will embody teamwork and a shared purpose, and make Joy a great place to work.

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical knowledge
• 3+ years of leading an engineering team
• Proven track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineering talent.
• High degree of familiarity with Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript
• Have demonstrated experience in building secure, high-performing REST or GraphQL APIs
• Set and hold a high bar for quality.
• Has a great understanding of SQL and NoSQL worlds. We use both Firebase as well as PostgreSQL.
• Great at debugging complex applications
• Previous startup experience preferred