Senior Backend Engineer - Platform & Infrastructure
About The Position
Prismatic is an integration platform that helps B2B software companies build and scale integrations. Its AWS-hosted platform gives less-technical users tools to develop, test, deploy, and monitor integrations, and uses Terraform, GitLab CI, and TypeScript extensively across backend services. The Senior Backend Engineer will work as part of a fully remote team to build internal and public-facing services, improve performance and observability, and scale the platform as the team and product grow. The role contributes to product capabilities and user outcomes through infrastructure work, and participates in technical decision-making, planning, architectural and design discussions, and mentorship. The engineer will collaborate with backend engineers and colleagues in security and support, as well as cross-functional product teams. The team ships new code to production every day.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of progressive professional software development experience, with technical leadership and architectural contributions; startup experience is ideal.
- Experience implementing AWS cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform and Docker.
- Experience in the JavaScript/TypeScript and Python ecosystems.
- Hands-on experience building for and operating FaaS environments such as AWS Lambda.
- Expertise building and evolving large-scale, distributed production systems.
- Enjoys tackling complex CI/CD scenarios.
- Commitment to a communicative and collaborative work environment.
- Writes understandable, maintainable code.
- Advocates for engineering excellence, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.
- Experience with and opinions on using AI coding agents to accelerate work.
Nice To Haves
- Professional experience with PostgreSQL.
- Professional experience with Redis.
- Professional experience with GraphQL.
- Professional experience with GitLab CI/CD.
- A GitHub or similar portfolio the candidate is proud to show.
Responsibilities
- Write clean, maintainable, production-ready code for core infrastructure and related parts of the product.
- Lead projects from conception through production deployment.
- Support and empower engineers, designers, product managers, and business stakeholders on cross-functional teams.
- Collaborate as a member of a full-stack product development team.
- Create strong developer experiences through the dashboard, documentation, APIs, and SDKs.
- Identify and advocate for techniques and technologies that improve platform reliability and scalability.
- Participate in the Platform On-Call rotation.
- Provide feedback in code, design, and security reviews.
- Coach and mentor less experienced teammates while developing domain expertise.
- Contribute to technical decision-making, planning, and architectural and design discussions.
Benefits
- Unlimited and flexible paid time off.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for full-time employees and their dependents.
- Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance.
- 401(k) plan with a 4% company match: 100% of the first 3% and 50% of the next 2%.
- Role-appropriate computer and technology equipment.
- $1,000 new-hire setup stipend.
- Remote work across the US, with company kick-offs and mid-year meetings involving team travel twice a year.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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