Staff Backend Engineer - GraphQL & Platform Foundations

Quo; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 205,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical coverage

Lifestyle stipend

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Quo is shifting from REST to GraphQL, building foundational patterns and libraries that accelerate all teams. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll lead the migration, design scalable backend systems, and mentor engineers across the org while collaborating with product and infrastructure teams.

You’ll work hands-on with TypeScript, GraphQL, and distributed systems, influencing technical direction and creating reusable patterns that power the company’s API platform.

Qualifications

• Experience building GraphQL APIs in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead REST to GraphQL migration and build core patterns.

Skills

TypeScript

GraphQL

Backend engineering

Systems design

Platform libraries

Tools

Node.js

Temporal

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

Redis

Datadog

React

iOS

Android

Job description

Quo is shifting from REST to GraphQL, building foundational patterns and libraries that accelerate all teams. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll lead the migration, design scalable backend systems, and mentor engineers across the org while collaborating with product and infrastructure teams.

You’ll work hands-on with TypeScript, GraphQL, and distributed systems, influencing technical direction and creating reusable patterns that power the company’s API platform.