Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, AI-Driven, Equity

Quo; New York (NY); Remote; USD 169,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Quo, a remote-first AI-powered platform for small businesses, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer in the United States. You will spend most of your time coding, architecting, and owning mid-to-large backend components, with potential to lead a small team or project.

The role emphasizes building scalable systems, collaborating across teams, and delivering end-to-end. The tech stack includes Node with TypeScript, Kubernetes on AWS, event-driven microservices, and databases like Postgres, Mongo,

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Typescript, or experience with object-oriented languages such as Java or C# and Javascript/Node.
• Strong experience with observability tools, including metrics, structured logging and distributed tracing
• You take ownership of your work and understand the importance of communication.
• You are intentional about how your work impacts customers, the community, and each other.
• You are curious. You better seek to understand the 'why' behind things, so that you can better plan and build the 'how'. You support your teammates and customers through the continuous pursuit of knowledge.
• Your code is a pleasure for your teammates to read and understand and you strive to ensure it is readable, testable, and maintainable.. When working in the codebase, you leave things better than you found them.
• You embrace AI and find ways to use it to improve your work, rather than shying away from it.

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Backend Engineer at Quo, you will spend a majority of your time coding, architecting, and owning moderate to complex components.
• Beyond your technical work, you may also lead a small team or a project.
• You might also spend time providing technical guidance, code reviews, and design and delivering on small/medium size projects end-to-end.
• Potential Areas Of Focus Include: using AI and advanced tech to derive insights and optimize onboarding, enabling users to manage and scale accounts, and enhancing messaging and data management.

Skills

Typescript

Observability tools

Ownership & communication

Empathy & teamwork

Curiosity & learning

Readable code

AI awareness

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Temporal

RabbitMQ

Postgres

Mongo

Elastic

Redis

Datadog

Figma

Linear

Notion

Slack

Job description

Quo, a remote-first AI-powered platform for small businesses, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer in the United States. You will spend most of your time coding, architecting, and owning mid-to-large backend components, with potential to lead a small team or project.

The role emphasizes building scalable systems, collaborating across teams, and delivering end-to-end. The tech stack includes Node with TypeScript, Kubernetes on AWS, event-driven microservices, and databases like Postgres, Mongo,