Full Stack Engineer: Region-Aware API & Postgres Lead

Nametag; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote-first

Flexible schedules

Job summary

Nametag, a remote-first, US-based team, seeks backend engineers to own Postgres schemas, migrations, indexing, and region-aware data design. You will enforce tenant isolation and data residency across regions to ensure compliance.

You will design coherent public APIs, implement authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and idempotency, and deliver scalable solutions for identity verification workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience with PostgreSQL schema design, migrations and indexing.
• Ability to design scalable data models with tenant isolation and data classification.
• Proven ability to optimize query performance and ensure operational health of databases.

Responsibilities

• Own Postgres: schema design, migrations, indexing, query performance, and operational health.
• Design region-aware architecture: routing, storage, replication, and failover.
• Enforce data residency so rows cannot leave their required region.
• Own the API surface: Design public APIs that are coherent, predictable, and versioned.
• Build authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and idempotency.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Schema design

Migrations

Performance tuning

Tenant isolation

Data classification

Job description

Nametag, a remote-first, US-based team, seeks backend engineers to own Postgres schemas, migrations, indexing, and region-aware data design. You will enforce tenant isolation and data residency across regions to ensure compliance.

You will design coherent public APIs, implement authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and idempotency, and deliver scalable solutions for identity verification workflows.