Staff Backend Engineer – GraphQL Migration Leader

Quo; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 186,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical coverage

Lifestyle stipend

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Quo, a remote-first tech company building an AI-powered communications platform, seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to lead foundational backend work. You’ll drive the REST to GraphQL migration, shape architecture, and collaborate across teams to implement secure, scalable backend systems.

You’ll help rework authentication and authorization, write pivotal backend patterns, and mentor engineers, ensuring the platform scales with growing customer demand.

Qualifications

• Proficient in TypeScript and strong understanding of its type system.
• Production experience with GraphQL APIs and API modernization.
• Solid grasp of systems design, reliability and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead REST to GraphQL migration work and patterns.
• Shape GraphQL architecture with supergraphs and subgraphs.
• Rework authentication/authorization across teams and write code with them.
• Build reusable backend libraries and patterns used by product engineers.
• Design scalable backend systems and ensure reliability as usage grows.
• Set technical direction for foundational work (search to API design).
• Mentor engineers on Foundations and across the organization.

Skills

TypeScript

GraphQL

Backend engineering

Systems design

Shared libraries

Ownership

Job description

Quo, a remote-first tech company building an AI-powered communications platform, seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to lead foundational backend work. You’ll drive the REST to GraphQL migration, shape architecture, and collaborate across teams to implement secure, scalable backend systems.

You’ll help rework authentication and authorization, write pivotal backend patterns, and mentor engineers, ensuring the platform scales with growing customer demand.