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Senior Backend Engineer, Member Experience
Location
United States
Posted
6 days ago
Salary
$180K - $240K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer, Member Experience
Raya
• Collaborate, build, and lead key components of our Raya backend services • Work hand-in-hand with cross-functional teams, ensuring our solutions are comprehensive and user focused • Stay updated with the latest in Raya's tech ecosystem, ensuring our solutions are scalable, maintainable, and innovative • Prioritize and advocate for top-tier user experiences, utilizing feedback loops and data-driven methodologies to define and refine product features • Navigate the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and Raya's best practices are integrated into all development phases
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in modern software development environments, with a track record of delivering scalable and maintainable systems
- Demonstrated expertise in system design, architecture, and mastery in Node.js and Typescript
- Proven experience in building and scaling backend systems in production at a startup or fast-moving environment
- Production Apple StoreKit Payments/Subscriptions experience
- Production Stripe Payments/Subscriptions experience for a B2C product
- Enthusiasm around new AI tools and frameworks - and a willingness to quickly adopt emerging best practices
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- $50 a day food delivery budget
- Equity based employment
- Great culture
- Learning opportunities
- Unlimited vacation
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- $1,000 a year to go somewhere in the world that they’ve never been
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