Senior Backend Engineer

About the role
Hiring a senior backend engineer to join our team and focus on system architecture our most popular products.

Things you'll be working on

Architecting and implementing backend systems in Typescript/Node is the core of what you'll be doing. Real examples include

• Designing and building an ingestion pipeline for our analytics/insights products (> 99.99% uptime on Kafka, Clickhouse, Redis)
• Spiking on our CI/CD to improve stability
• Build out durable/distributed cart/hosting for our ecommerce product
• Deploying a multi-tenant NextJS app for shops in Cloudflare
• Mentoring junior engineers on best-practices

Looking for someone who

• Can be in office 3-4 days/week in San Francisco
• Has deep knowledge in distributed systems and SOA - load balancers, databases, queuing, caching, HTTP, APIs, high-availability, fault tolerance, redundancy, at-least-two-of-everything
• Down to do full-stack work (including frontend even if it's not your main role)
• Is ALWAYS SHIPPING. We don't spend weeks planning features at Replo
• Has 4+ years of professional experience with production distributed systems, service oriented architecture
• Proficient in Typescript. If you have experience writing these systems in Python/Go/Java that's cool too, as long as you're willing to learn Typescript/Node - the learning curve on writing TS isn't that high for high-caliber engineers. Experience or working knowledge of React is great too, but we can teach you that if we need to
• Has a product and customer-focused mindset
• Has experience being burned by deployment and maintenance issues. If you have a a strong opinion on how backend systems should be built, that's good
• Values writing clean, maintainable software, including documentation (e.g. the code needs to be correct and run fast, but we're the ones that have to read it and understand it)
• Is comfortable with ambiguity and defining software architecture patterns to solve customer pain points

Bonus points if you

• Have started a company before
• Enjoy attending hackathons
• Worked at an early-stage (Series A or earlier) startup previously
• Have not wasted hours interview-prepping on Leetcode
• Have an eye for visual design (or past experience in product design, Figma, etc)