Senior Backend Engineer

Canaan Partners; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech-driven company in New York seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to join as a founding member. This role includes working closely with founders on specifications, translating requirements into engineering tasks, and implementing various features. Candidates should have a passion for user satisfaction and prior experience in product development. Compensation ranges from $150K to $225K, reflecting the responsibility and scope of the role. A chance to influence technical direction and team growth awaits you.

Qualifications

• Passion for delighting users and building products.
• Ability to work directly with founders on engineering specs.
• Experience in implementing features and setting technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the founders on specifications.
• Translate specifications to engineering requirements.
• Implement features and manage deployments.

Skills

User empathy

Product development

Node.js (a plus)

Job description

Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

As one of the founding engineers, you will be responsible for…well pretty much everything engineering related. That means

• Working directly with the founders on specs
• Translating specs to engineering requirements
• Implementation of features
• Deployments
• Deployment processes
• Setting technical direction
• Recruiting your friends

Qualifications

We’re looking for people that have a passion for delighting users, empathize deeply with them, and have built products before.

On the backend we use Node, although no familiarity with it is required (although it's a plus!).

Interview Process

We move quickly. Our process is:

• 15 min intro call
• 45 min initial interview
• Two hour long interviews with engineering leads
• Offer

Base from 150-225K

Interested? Click here to apply.