Backend Engineer (TypeScript)

Who You Are:

Acts with integrity and seeks out responsibility

Demonstrates resilience, resourcefulness, and motivation for getting things done

Organized and process-driven

Approaches challenges as opportunities

Curious and challenges personal assumptions regularly

Welcomes feedback and open dialogue

Values team success over personal recognition

What You'll Be Doing:

Build and improve backend code primarily in TypeScript.

Set up and maintain metrics dashboards for production systems.

Update existing code to support new metrics and improve system observability.

Set up alerts and work closely with DevOps to optimize production systems.

Automate deployments and operational reporting to Slack.

Test systems in production, identify and troubleshoot issues, and fix bugs.

Help clean up and improve the existing codebase.

Write and maintain automated tests.

Improve and optimize deployment processes.

Implement code enhancements as new requirements emerge.

Skills, Requirements and Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

2+ years of experience in a backend software engineering role.

Solid TypeScript development skills and strong backend software engineering fundamentals.

Good understanding of metrics, monitoring, and alerting, with the ability to debug and troubleshoot production systems.

Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code and make reliable improvements to existing systems.

Nice to have:

Experience with Go.

Experience with Datadog, OpenObserve, and/or building Slack bots or integrations.

Familiarity with web scraping and browser automation, including Playwright.