Remote Staff Backend Engineer — GraphQL Foundations

Quo; United States; Remote; USD 186,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical coverage

Lifestyle stipend

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Quo is a remote-first company building an AI-powered platform that unifies calls, texts, and customer data. The Foundations team creates patterns and backend capabilities used across the engineering org.

The Staff Backend Engineer will drive the REST to GraphQL transition, design scalable backend systems, and mentor teams to adopt new patterns. This hands-on role emphasizes ownership and cross-team impact across Quo's backend platform.

Qualifications

• Proven backend engineer with scalable systems experience.
• Built GraphQL APIs in production and led API migrations REST→GraphQL.
• Proficient in TypeScript and Node.js.
• Strong ownership mindset and cross-team influence.
• Mentored engineers and shipped reusable backend patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead the REST to GraphQL migration and build core pieces.
• Shape GraphQL architecture with supergraphs and subgraphs.
• Rework authentication and authorization across teams.
• Build reusable libraries and backend patterns used daily.
• Design reliable, scalable backend systems for growing usage.
• Set technical direction for foundations work and API design.
• Mentor Foundations engineers and raise engineering standards.

Skills

TypeScript

GraphQL

Node.js

Backend engineering

Systems design

Tools

Temporal

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Redis

Datadog

AWS

Job description

Quo is a remote-first company building an AI-powered platform that unifies calls, texts, and customer data. The Foundations team creates patterns and backend capabilities used across the engineering org.

The Staff Backend Engineer will drive the REST to GraphQL transition, design scalable backend systems, and mentor teams to adopt new patterns. This hands-on role emphasizes ownership and cross-team impact across Quo's backend platform.