Remote Senior Backend Engineer Needed at Superhuman Superhuman

Digitaltidewave; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Growth Pod. In this role, you will design and maintain backend systems that drive revenue growth initiatives, collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality code quickly. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies like Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes to build robust architectures for payment processing and monetization features. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a premium productivity brand, shaping the future of email and communication while ensuring a reliable and efficient backend system. If you're passionate about backend development and eager to learn, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend development experience and 5+ years in software development.
• Expertise in payment processing systems and data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale backend systems serving millions of users.
• Collaborate across teams to enhance system performance and reliability.

Skills

Backend Development

Software Development

Payment Processing

Data Analysis

Problem Solving

Technical Communication

Tools

Go

PostgreSQL

CloudFlare

Kubernetes

Stripe

LaunchDarkly

Job description

Job role: Senior Backend Engineer

Company name: Superhuman

Location: Remote, USA

Salary: $120,000 – $155,000 Annually

About the Job: Superhuman exists to shape the future of email, communication, and productivity. We rebuilt the inbox from the ground up to make you brilliant at what you do. We specifically designed it for those of you who want the best. We have created the frameworks for how to build product market fit and redefined the narrative of how to onboard customers successfully. We have shown the world it’s possible to build a premium productivity brand.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Growth Pod, you will build and maintain critical backend systems that drive Superhuman’s revenue growth initiatives. You will collaborate with marketing, sales, and product teams to ship high-quality code at a fast pace. Working with technologies like Go, PostgreSQL, CloudFlare, and Kubernetes, you’ll own full-fledged architectures for payment processing, monetization features, and scheduled jobs.

Responsibilities in this Role

• Design, develop, and scale backend systems that serve millions of users.
• Power amazing user experiences by building new features and improving existing ones.
• Evaluate and refine solutions to deliver a highly performant and exceptionally reliable backend system.
• Become an expert in backend development and expand your development across the stack and to various platforms.
• Collaborate across teams to define how our systems should evolve.
• Support code quality, new technologies, and architectural design within the company.
• Uphold and advance the security and reliability of Superhuman’s systems.

Qualifications/Qualities

• Experience: You have 3+ years of backend development experience and 5+ years of software development experience.
• Payment systems expert: You have experience with payment processing systems, particularly Stripe, including handling subscriptions, refunds, and payment analytics.
• Data driven: You’re proficient in implementing and analyzing telemetry data, working with analytics teams to derive insights from user behavior and feature adoption.
• Feature flag manager: You’re familiar with feature flag systems like LaunchDarkly to support A/B testing and controlled feature rollouts.
• Detective: You have a deep desire to understand how things work in great detail, to guide you in designing systems, and debugging that arise.
• Problem solver: You excel at understanding and solving complex problems. You have astonishing attention to detail.
• Quality focused: You take pride in building elegant and beautiful things.
• Learning: You’re open to the best tool for the job. You are excited to learn new technologies.
• Technical communicator: You can break down tricky topics in writing and in person.
• Surprisingly efficient: You get a lot done quickly, and can translate your skills into new processes that your team will follow.
• Leadership: You will help to build an inclusive culture and shape our future.