Staff Backend Engineer, TypeScript – Distributed Production

Firestorm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Equity grants

Unlimited PTO

Generous holiday calendar

Parental Leave

Mental Health Resources

Job summary

Firestorm in San Diego, CA is seeking a Staff Backend Software Engineer to help build the core backend of Crucible. The backend is TypeScript-based with GraphQL and Prisma, evolving with the product.

You will design production planning models, ensure reliable cross-environment operation, and collaborate with software leadership on architecture while delivering scalable backend services for the deployable manufacturing network.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
• 8+ years building and shipping backend or distributed software in production.
• Strong backend software engineering fundamentals and demonstrated judgment choosing technologies and system designs.
• Strong experience with at least one modern backend language.
• Strong relational data modeling, API design, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience designing systems with complex state, workflows, and consistency requirements.
• Experience operating and debugging production software.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Build Crucible's backend — Design and ship the services, APIs, data models, and workflows behind production planning and execution.
• Own core system models — Define how Crucible represents production, materials, inventory, resources, work, and operational state.
• Design for distributed operation — Build systems that behave correctly across cloud, factory, and disconnected deployments, including synchronization, reconciliation, and failure recovery.
• Build durable integrations — Connect Crucible to PLM, ERP, quality, test, optimization, and other production systems through clear interfaces and ownership boundaries.
• Make the system reliable — Improve performance, observability, testing, and failure handling for software used to run real production.
• Partner on architecture — Work with software leadership and architecture on service boundaries, data ownership, system interfaces, and technical direction.
• Raise the engineering bar — Review critical code and designs, improve development practices, and help other engineers solve difficult backend problem

Skills

Backend fundamentals

Distributed systems

API design

Relational data modeling

Modern backend language

TypeScript/Node.js

Production debugging

Strong communication

Security clearance

Tools

GraphQL

Prisma

Job description

Firestorm in San Diego, CA is seeking a Staff Backend Software Engineer to help build the core backend of Crucible. The backend is TypeScript-based with GraphQL and Prisma, evolving with the product.

You will design production planning models, ensure reliable cross-environment operation, and collaborate with software leadership on architecture while delivering scalable backend services for the deployable manufacturing network.