Responsibilities
- Build, ship, and maintain backend services using Node.js, Socket.IO, AWS Amplify, and DynamoDB
- Work across the frontend with TypeScript, React, Next.js
- Design and integrate APIs using both REST and GraphQL, supporting flexible, scalable data access across services
- Develop deep expertise in a few areas while remaining comfortable diving into new parts of the codebase
- Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions, fostering a culture of clarity, curiosity, and shared ownership
- Translate high-level product requirements into parallelizable, incrementally releasable tasks
- Balance short-term deliverables with long-term investments in efficiency, scalability, and performance
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience on a full-stack engineering team, building and maintaining production-grade services
- Professional experience with TypeScript, including API development, backend service design, and system integration
- Experience building user interfaces through reusable, composable components—favoring clarity, encapsulation, and predictable state management.
- Proven ability to optimize database performance through thoughtful schema design, query tuning, and indexing strategies
- Strong communication skills and the ability to navigate technical tradeoffs in a collaborative, cross-functional environment
Nice to Have
- Experience with AWS Amplify
- Familiarity with Electron and building cross-platform desktop (or mobile) applications
- Experience integrating with LangChain, or other LLM orchestration frameworks
- Comfort working in startup environments, where ambiguity, speed, and scrappy problem-solving are the norm
- A self-starting mindset with the ability to scope, prioritize, and execute independently
- Strong product intuition and curiosity about how users interact with emerging interfaces
- Prior experience with voice technology and AI-driven applications
Benefits
- Holistic health
- Medical, dental, vision benefits
- Annual wellness stipend
- Mental health support
- Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
- Work/life blend
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous paid parental leave
- Flexible schedule
- 12 Paid US company holidays
- Quarterly personal productivity stipend
- One-time stipend for home office upgrades
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Tax Savings Programs
- Continuous learning
- Learning / Education stipend
- Participation in talks and conferences
- Employee Resource Groups
- AI enablement workshops / sessions
