Backend Software Engineer – Multiple Openings

Common Room•Seattle, WA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Common Room is seeking Backend Software Engineers to join their team. This role involves developing infrastructure, data models, features, and overall systems to build APIs and maintain codebase to resolve customer issues. The engineer will write well-designed, testable code ensuring systems are efficient, optimized, scalable, and reliable. They will also develop software testing and validation procedures and documentation, ensuring Common Room’s core internal capabilities, infrastructure, and ML systems serve the needs of customers and the team. The role requires analyzing, problem-solving, and designing systems with simple, elegant solutions while considering observability, SLA, and scalability. Maintaining relational database applications and utilizing tools including AWS, Postgres, and Node are key responsibilities. The engineer will work with software development lifecycle and teammates in an agile planning environment and identify and participate in company-building initiatives. This position is based in HQ Seattle but allows for remote work from any location in the U.S.

Requirements

BS Degree in Computer Engineering or a related degree plus 2 years of experience as a Software Engineer or a related position.
Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software systems and features.
Modifying existing software to correct errors and enhance performance.
Writing clean, efficient, and testable code.
Managing data storage, retrieval, and manipulation to evaluate software capabilities.
Tools including Typescript, React, Amazon Web Services, Generative AI
Performance optimization and improved scalability and reliability.
Maintaining relational database applications, utilizing relational and non-relational data structures.

Responsibilities

Develop infrastructure, data models, features, and overall system to build APIs, and maintain codebase to resolve customer issues.
Write well designed, testable code ensuring systems are efficient, optimized, scalable and reliable.
Develop software testing and validation procedures and documentation.
Ensure Common Room’s core internal capabilities, infrastructure, and ML systems serve the needs of customers and our team.
Analyze, problem solve, and design systems, and simple, elegant solutions while considering observability, SLA and scalability.
Maintain relational database applications.
Utilize tools including AWS, Postgres, and Node.
Utilize data technologies including Redshift, MongoDB, Docker, Redis, React and TypeScript.
Work with software development lifecycle and teammates in an agile planning environment.
Identify and participate in company-building initiatives.

Benefits

Competitive base compensation with meaningful equity ownership
Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision, HSA and FSA
We pay 100% of your employee premium and 50% of your premium for any dependents
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Paid Company Holidays
Work from home policy including a laptop and support for your home office needs
Monthly Remote Stipend
401(k) self contribution
Paid Family Leave
Opportunity to join a diverse, passionate, and fun team at a pivotal time in the company’s lifecycle