Staff Backend Engineer

Future PLC; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Flexible PTO

Equity

Job summary

Future is building a personalized guidance system for lifelong health. We hire Backend engineers who design, implement, and test APIs, optimize data pipelines, and own core services.

You will collaborate across teams, ensure quality with tests and monitoring, and participate in an on-call rotation roughly one week per month. You will work with Go, AWS, Docker (ECS), and Postgres, with a focus on scalable backend systems and pragmatic tradeoffs in a fast-moving startup environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of production development experience, backend/API focus.
• Strong product thinking and user-centric approach.
• Scrappiness and pragmatism in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Experience with Docker-based microservice architecture and cloud tech.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test APIs for new products and services.
• Maintain and optimize systems with focus on database performance.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver scalable APIs and infra.
• Stay current with technologies and encourage peers to do the same.
• Serve as on-call engineer approximately one week per month.

Skills

Go

AWS

Docker ECS

Postgres RDS

Unit testing

Monitoring

Alerting

Microservices

ETL experience

Job description

About Us:

Future is building a personalized guidance system for lifelong health. We help people understand what to do next for their body, goals, and stage of life — then support them in turning those decisions into sustained behavior change. By combining AI, human expertise, personal health data, and accountability, Future helps members improve performance today while building the resilience, capacity, and healthspan they need for decades to come.

About the Role

Backend engineers at Future operate at all levels -- building out core services, data pipelines, essential business systems, developer operations, and customer-facing features. We’re responsible for the entirety of product surfaces across user and trainer experiences, and the initiatives we drive span across foundational core infrastructure to rapid feature iteration. Backend engineers work closely with several engineering teams product managers to deliver the APIs, infrastructure, and scalability needed for every initiative.

You will:

• Design, implement, and test APIs for new products, features, and services
• Maintain and optimize existing systems, with emphasis on database-related performance
• Collaborate with other engineers across the stack as well as cross-functional stakeholders
• Keep up to date with the latest technologies and industry best practices, and encouraging fellow engineers to do so
• Serve as on-call engineer approximately one week per month, responsible for triaging incoming issues during non-working hour

You have:

• Great Product thinking. You think about the end user experience when you are building to consider whether the features you are building are not only meeting requirements but delighting users.
• 8+ years of production development experience, specifically working on backend / API
• Scrappiness and pragmatism. We are a small and fast-moving startup and value someone who can continually weigh tradeoffs to balance engineering excellence with velocity.
• Strong knowledge of Go, AWS, Docker (ECS), Postgres (RDS)
• Proven ability to employ software quality measures during development, such as unit/integration testing, monitoring, alerting
• Experience managing Docker-based microservice architecture
• Experience working in a fast-moving startup environment. You are adaptable to shifting priorities, and have a proven track record of cutting through asks to build what matters.
• Nice to have: experience working with ETL, with keen intuition for optimized database performance

Compensation, Benefits Life at Future:

• Salary range: $200,000 - 230,000 / year + equity. The salary range is set based on multiple considerations including business needs, market demands, talent availability, experience, and unique skills and attributes. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
• Health coverage: All employees have access to comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and disability insurance + tax savings accounts
• 401(k) plan
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Future Members