Senior Backend Engineer/Infrastructure

Perfect Venue • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

Perfect Venue is hiring a senior backend engineer to build product features and help operate the systems behind them. Application development is the primary focus. The role covers the application, APIs, data models, integrations, and background jobs, with shared responsibility for cloud infrastructure alongside the engineering lead.

The engineer will deliver customer-facing work from product discussions through release and iteration, and own backend features through design, implementation, testing, release, and maintenance. They will help keep production services reliable, review infrastructure changes, investigate issues across application and cloud boundaries, and collaborate with product and frontend engineers. Perfect Venue provides software and AI agents to help venues manage event planning and sales.

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 working with 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

• Experience with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with AWS and Terraform specifically.
• Experience with GraphQL, third-party integrations, and SaaS business workflows.
• Experience with 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 you’ll actually be able to use.
• Medical, vision, and dental with paid premiums for you and cost-sharing for dependents.
• Flexible PTO.
• 401(k).
• Daily lunches when onsite.
• Unlimited book budget.
• Company laptop.
• Complimentary One Medical membership for you and your family.

What This Job Offers

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