Staff Backend Engineer: GraphQL Foundations Leader

Quo; Austin (TX); 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 redefining how US businesses connect with customers. As Staff Backend Engineer on Foundations, you’ll lead REST to GraphQL migration, shape the GraphQL architecture, and build reusable backend libraries that empower other teams.

You’ll mentor engineers, partner with product and security to improve auth, search and API design, and ensure scalable systems for thousands of companies. Quo offers equity, medical coverage, a lifestyle stipend and flexible PTO.

Qualifications

• You write TypeScript every day and know its type system well.
• Built and run GraphQL APIs in production and migrated REST to GraphQL.
• Strong backend engineer with systems design, reliability and infra skills.
• Enjoy building libraries, patterns and platform capabilities for others.
• Influence technical direction across teams and explain trade-offs clearly.
• Thrives in ownership, ambiguity and high-impact growth environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the REST to GraphQL migration and build core patterns.
• Shape GraphQL architecture, breaking large graphs into subgraphs.
• Improve authentication and authorization across teams with codework.
• Build reusable libraries and backend patterns for engineers.
• Design reliable, scalable backend systems as Quo grows.
• Mentor Foundations engineers and drive cross-team collaboration.

Skills

TypeScript

GraphQL

Backend engineering

Systems design

Reliability

Infrastructure

Code ownership

Tools

Temporal

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Redis

Datadog

AWS

Job description

Quo is a remote-first company redefining how US businesses connect with customers. As Staff Backend Engineer on Foundations, you’ll lead REST to GraphQL migration, shape the GraphQL architecture, and build reusable backend libraries that empower other teams.

You’ll mentor engineers, partner with product and security to improve auth, search and API design, and ensure scalable systems for thousands of companies. Quo offers equity, medical coverage, a lifestyle stipend and flexible PTO.