Senior Growth Backend Engineer - Hybrid, NYC

Nanit; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid in-office schedule

Remote work month in August

Flexible PTO

Equity options

Paid parental leave

Employee discounts on Nanit products

Work from home stipend

Monthly team events

Job summary

Nanit is seeking a founding backend engineer on the Growth team, responsible for powering paywalls, subscriptions, onboarding journeys, and referral mechanics. You will own API design and the end-to-end funnel, collaborating with mobile engineers and product managers across time zones.

This hybrid NYC role requires 5+ years in backend development, strong autonomy, and a product-minded approach. Expect ownership, rapid decision-making, and a path to shaping Nanit’s backend culture in the US.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend software development experience with design and architecture.
• Demonstrated autonomy in distributed teams with limited timezone overlap.
• Excellent asynchronous written communication.
• Comfort with ambiguity and shipping to learn.
• Experience with production systems, load balancing, caching.
• Designing and maintaining APIs for mobile clients.
• Hands-on with A/B testing infrastructure and event instrumentation.
• Solid testing methodologies and test automation.
• Proficient with Grafana and Prometheus for monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Own the backend behind growth bets: paywalls, subscriptions, onboarding journeys, messaging, referrals, trials, and checkout bundling.
• Build and extend experimentation and instrumentation layer (feature flags, event tracking).
• Work end-to-end across funnel: acquisition, activation, retention.
• Collaborate closely with mobile and product teams; design API contracts with engineers and PMs.
• Operate with high agency: make decisions, document, ship; escalate intentionally.
• Set patterns for US engineering: async communication, documentation, on-call, reviews.
• Anchor on-call coverage in your time zone; triage and mitigate incidents.
• Contribute to backend guild: share best practices and standards across R&D.

Skills

Backend development

APIs design (REST/gRPC/WebSocket)

Experimentation & analytics

Testing & automation

Monitoring & observability

Agile familiarity

Distributed systems

On-call & incident response

Clear written communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

Prometheus

Unleash

Mixpanel

Job description

Nanit is seeking a founding backend engineer on the Growth team, responsible for powering paywalls, subscriptions, onboarding journeys, and referral mechanics. You will own API design and the end-to-end funnel, collaborating with mobile engineers and product managers across time zones.

This hybrid NYC role requires 5+ years in backend development, strong autonomy, and a product-minded approach. Expect ownership, rapid decision-making, and a path to shaping Nanit’s backend culture in the US.