Staff Backend Engineer - GraphQL Foundations, Remote

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 186,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Quo is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to help unify the platform with scalable backend services. You will lead the REST to GraphQL migration, shape GraphQL architecture, and work across teams to implement patterns that other engineers can reuse.

You will write production-grade TypeScript, collaborate on authentication and authorization, and mentor Foundations engineers while building robust, observable systems. This is a remote-first role with strong growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• You write TypeScript every day and know its type system and patterns that keep a large codebase healthy.
• You've built and run GraphQL APIs in production and helped move a codebase from REST to GraphQL or led a similar API modernization.
• You're a strong backend engineer with a solid grasp of systems design, reliability and infrastructure, and built scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the REST to GraphQL migration, building core pieces and patterns for teams to finish their work.
• Shape GraphQL architecture, including breaking a large graph into subgraphs that teams can own.
• Rework authentication and authorization across Quo, collaborating directly with each team.
• Build reusable libraries and backend patterns used daily by product engineers.
• Design reliable, scalable backend systems as more businesses run on Quo.
• Set technical direction for foundational work, from search to API design, and mentor teams.

Skills

TypeScript

GraphQL

REST-to-GraphQL

Backend design

Authentication

Authorization

Temporal

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Redis

React

iOS

Android

Go

Python

Java

Tools

Temporal

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Redis

React

GraphQL federation

Job description

Quo is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to help unify the platform with scalable backend services. You will lead the REST to GraphQL migration, shape GraphQL architecture, and work across teams to implement patterns that other engineers can reuse.

You will write production-grade TypeScript, collaborate on authentication and authorization, and mentor Foundations engineers while building robust, observable systems. This is a remote-first role with strong growth opportunities.