Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API

Parallel Web Systems; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous equity

Visa sponsorships

401K plans

Daily lunch & office snacks

Dinner at the office

Unlimited vacation

Caltrain pass reimbursement

Job summary

Parallel Web Systems in the United States is seeking a backend engineer to build and maintain our backend that already handles millions of custom requests daily, ensuring reliability and performance as we scale. You will steward our API and make it developer-friendly and easy to integrate for customers and partners.

We value intuition on distributed systems, databases, maintainable code design, and API design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience.
• Deep intuition on distributed systems, databases, and API design.
• Years of experience correlates with internal job level requirements for this position.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain our backend that handles millions of custom requests daily.
• Steward our API to be developer-friendly and easy to integrate with.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Backend development

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

About us

Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web.

We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission.

The role:

You will build and maintain our backend that already handles millions of custom requests daily, and ensure that it’s reliable, performant and exceeds expectations for our customers as we scale. You will also be a steward of our API and ensure that it’s developer-friendly and easy to integrate with.

About you:

Have deep intuition on distributed systems, databases, maintainable code design, and API design. You like to reason about trade-offs between speed, scalability, and developer ergonomics. You care about your work powering products and systems that millions rely on, and about APIs that developers love to use.

You might be a good fit if you have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience
• A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Years of experience required will correlated with the internal job level requirements for this position.

Life at Parallel

Our team works fully in-person, between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office. We’re a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems.

We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes. These are our values:

• Own customer impact: It’s on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.
• Obsess over craft: Perfect every detail because quality compounds.
• Accelerate change: Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.
• Create win-wins: Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.
• Make high-conviction bets: Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.

Compensation & benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous equity
• Visa sponsorships
• 401K plans
• Daily lunch & office snacks
• Dinner at the office
• Unlimited vacation
• Caltrain pass reimbursement