Backend Engineer — Minneapolis, MN

About The Role

The role builds the backend systems that power user-facing products used by hundreds of thousands of people daily - APIs, services, and data flows that need to be fast, reliable, and easy to evolve.

The engineer will own services end-to-end, working closely with frontend and mobile engineers to ship features quickly without compromising performance, correctness, or observability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services in TypeScript (Node.js) and/or Go, exposing well-documented REST and gRPC APIs consumed by web and mobile clients

• Model and evolve PostgreSQL schemas, write efficient queries, and manage caching layers (Redis) for latency-critical paths

• Build and maintain event-driven pipelines using Kafka or similar messaging systems to support real-time product features

• Own the deployment lifecycle: containerized services, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and staging-to-production rollout strategies

• Instrument services with structured logging, metrics, and tracing (Datadog or equivalent) and lead incident response and root-cause analysis

• Partner with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts, breaking-change management, and performance budgets

• Write thorough unit and integration tests, participate in code reviews, and raise the bar on engineering standards across the team

What We Are Looking For

• 3–7 years of backend software engineering experience, including ownership of production services at meaningful scale

• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language: TypeScript/Node.js, Go, Python, Java, or Kotlin

• Solid relational database experience (PostgreSQL or MySQL): schema design, query optimization, and migrations in production

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Track record of shipping user-facing features in cross-functional teams with product managers and designers

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

• Bonus: experience with gRPC, Kafka, Redis, Terraform, or building APIs consumed by native mobile apps