Senior Backend Engineer/Infrastructure

Perfect Venue • San Francisco, CA

1d • $160,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Perfect Venue is seeking a senior backend engineer to build useful product features and help operate the systems behind them. Application development is the primary focus. The role spans the application, APIs, data models, integrations, background jobs, and shared responsibility for cloud infrastructure with the engineering lead. The engineer will help keep production services reliable, review infrastructure changes, and investigate issues across application and cloud boundaries.

Requirements

• Experience independently delivering and maintaining backend features in a production web application.
• Strong proficiency in a backend language and web framework, such as Rails, Django, Laravel, Node.js, .NET, or a comparable stack.
• Strong relational database and SQL skills, including data modeling, query performance, and transactions.
• Experience designing APIs and handling asynchronous processing, integration failures, and retries.
• Hands-on experience deploying, troubleshooting, and operating applications on AWS or another major cloud platform, including permissions, networking, and application configuration.
• Experience reviewing and changing infrastructure as code using Terraform or a comparable tool.
• A practical approach to automated testing, safe releases, production debugging, and communicating technical tradeoffs.
• Experience helping other engineers through feedback, technical guidance, or mentoring.

Nice To Haves

• Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL experience.
• AWS and Terraform experience specifically.
• GraphQL, third-party integrations, and SaaS business workflows.
• Backup and recovery practices, observability, and application security.
• Enough frontend experience to collaborate comfortably in a React/TypeScript application.

Responsibilities

• Deliver customer-facing features from product discussion through release and iteration.
• Own backend features from technical design through implementation, testing, release, and maintenance.
• Build reliable APIs, integrations, and background processing for customer workflows.
• Improve database queries, application performance, and failure handling as the product grows.
• Work with the engineering lead to maintain AWS infrastructure and review Terraform changes.
• Investigate production incidents, improve monitoring and recovery procedures, and document operational guidance.
• Collaborate with product and frontend engineers on practical solutions.
• Support teammates through code reviews and mentoring.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation including meaningful equity.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage with premiums paid for the employee and cost-sharing for dependents.
• Flexible PTO.
• 401(k).
• Daily lunches when onsite.
• Unlimited book budget.
• Company laptop.
• Complimentary One Medical membership for the employee and family.

What This Job Offers

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