Senior Backend Engineer, Integrations

Vibe • New York, NY

1d • $196,000 - $265,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

You'll join the Integrations team, the connective tissue of Vibe's platform, reporting directly to the Engineering Manager. The team owns all data flowing in and out of Vibe: measurement and attribution integrations, audience connections from CRMs and CDPs, and reporting pipelines. This role exists because we're building a first-class Developer Platform, opening Vibe's full capabilities as an API so external partners can build on top of us. Three reasons to want this: you'll be one of the most senior engineers shaping the New York engineering presence from day one, you'll own foundational architecture decisions on a platform that marquee partners like Clay are already building against, and you'll work in an environment where AI-augmented development is the expectation, not the experiment.

Requirements

• Typically 6+ years shipping production backend systems: APIs, data pipelines, and distributed services at scale
• Deep hands-on proficiency in TypeScript and Python; you've owned complex systems in both, not just contributed to them
• Strong infrastructure fundamentals: AWS, Terraform, and the judgment to make architectural decisions, not just implement them
• Exposure to low-level programming concepts. C or C++ background is a plus; you understand what's happening beneath the abstraction
• A high-ownership background: startups, scale-ups, or any environment where you couldn't hand the hard problems to someone else
• A track record of raising the quality of the engineers around you, not just your own output

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience building or maintaining third-party integrations (ETL, webhooks, REST/GraphQL APIs)
• Familiarity with GCP or multi-cloud environments
• Experience designing or contributing to developer-facing platforms or public APIs

Responsibilities

• Design and implement production-grade integrations with external platforms: CRMs, CDPs, measurement vendors, and data partners
• Own integration projects end-to-end, from scoping through production, with full accountability for outcomes
• Collaborate directly with external partners to define, validate, and evolve data contracts
• Drive the architecture of Vibe's public API: account, advertiser, and campaign management endpoints built to scale
• Develop documentation, monitoring, and tooling that makes the developer experience genuinely first-class
• Contribute to MCP gateway and authentication layers that expose Vibe's capabilities to the world
• Identify architectural weaknesses in existing pipelines and lead the effort to rebuild them for scale
• Set the standard for code quality on the team. Your reviews move the bar, not just the diff
• Use AI tooling actively to accelerate development and raise output quality across the team
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review, pairing, and direct feedback
• Help establish engineering norms and practices as the New York team grows
• Partner with the Engineering Manager on technical direction and hiring calibration

Benefits

• Variable pay based on objectives you hit.
• Hybrid flexibility. We're in NYC's Flatiron District and our team is in 3x a week.
• Full health coverage. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with matching.
• Unlimited PTO. Take the time you need. We measure results, not hours.
• Parental leave. Paid leave for all parents.
• Annual offsite. The whole team, once a year, somewhere worth the trip.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed