Software Engineer, Backend

Your ability to quickly learn about the product, business and technology are your superpowers. You're crave growth and learning, but are able to independently own and execute features. You build APIs that other engineers can use to solve customer problems in our product, and also focus on ensuring that our systems are efficient, scalable and reliable.

You strive to ensure that Common Room's core internal capabilities, infrastructure, and systems continue to serve the needs of our customers and our team, often staying one step ahead of the product.

Outside of this, you also identify and participate in important company-building initiatives that a fast growing startup needs.

- You operate independently, but don't hesitate to seek help and support from those around you to get your job done.

- Revel in your craft, are excited by and capable of owning large projects primarily on the backend domain

- Collaborate effectively with other experienced engineers, including application/front-end engineers

- You have good judgement on tradeoffs and tools needed to solve the problem, and don't over index on trendy/fashionable tech. You generally prefer supported, stable technologies

- Use customer problems as input into designing systems, and find joy in creating simple, elegant solutions

- Consider observability, SLA and scalability implications, but are able to avoid premature optimization

- Bring your authentic self to work, and engage in candid + respectful feedback

- Build sustainably, and are capable of managing your time and priorities as best suits your needs

- Enjoy the journey as much as the destination, but never lose sight of the destination

- Demonstrate pride, ownership, and accountability for your work, and expect the same from those you work with

We choose tools that help solve the problem at hand efficiently. For our current set of problems, we prefer to primarily use TypeScript with Node.js. We use TypeGraphQL for our API endpoints, Apollo/Express as our web server, and Postgres (hosted on RDS) as our database.

We use React for front-end, and AWS for our infrastructure needs.

The compensation range for this position is between $150,000 and $210,000 (plus equity) depending on experience.