React-Driven Backend Engineer

Filetwigbay; Portland (ME); Hybrid; USD 54,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Portland office

Generous PTO

Career development priority

Job summary

Fox Corporation is expanding its Portland, ME team to build the backend that powers our tinker-friendly products while delivering React experiences that hold up under serious load.

In this hybrid Portland role, you’ll optimize queries, craft observability, and guide stakeholders through trade-offs. You’ll work alongside a growing team, shaping a platform that developers rely on daily, with a focus on growth and clean documentation.

Qualifications

• Comfort interpreting data and translating findings into clear recommendations.
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation.
• A growth mindset and openness to constructive feedback.
• Demonstrated calm when a Portland, ME client changes scope mid-stream.

Responsibilities

• Turn Fox Corporation's Coaching on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Fox Corporation workloads.
• Walk technology stakeholders through Coaching tradeoffs in language Fox Corporation execs grasp.
• Ship the hardworking Jest features that move Fox Corporation's technology roadmap forward.
• Drive the Python incident postmortem that stops the Portland outage from recurring.
• Stand up observability so Fox Corporation sees failures before customers in ME do.

Skills

Data interpretation

Clear documentation

Growth mindset

Feedback receptiveness

Calm under scope change

Tools

Jest

Python

Job description

Fox Corporation is expanding its Portland, ME team to build the backend that powers our tinker-friendly products while delivering React experiences that hold up under serious load.

In this hybrid Portland role, you’ll optimize queries, craft observability, and guide stakeholders through trade-offs. You’ll work alongside a growing team, shaping a platform that developers rely on daily, with a focus on growth and clean documentation.