Daydream · 4 days ago

Lead Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

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Responsibilities

Build experiences that delight customers by defining, architecting, building, and scaling the core product and technical vision.

Inspire and motivate the team, fostering a culture of trust and smart risk-taking, and actively participate in recruiting talented individuals.

Promote rapid learning by helping ship products quickly, making smart technical decisions, and writing elegant and maintainable code.

Solve extremely challenging engineering problems, architect complex applications, and operate across different stages of development.

Contribute to areas like DevOps & AWS, data engineering, security, and realtime collaboration.

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JavaPythonArchitecting ApplicationsBackend DevelopmentCS FundamentalsTraversing GraphsTree StructuresDFSBFSEngineering Problem SolvingScaling ApplicationsEngineering Best PracticesTechnical Decision MakingTrade-offs AnalysisProblem-SolvingCuriosityDevOpsAWSData EngineeringDbtSecuritySOC2 ComplianceCollaboration

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High technical horsepower. You are yourself a world class engineer who loves building. You have strong CS fundamentals (traversing graphs, tree structures, DFS, BFS, etc.), experience architecting complex applications, curiosity, and are well equipped to solve extremely challenging engineering problems. You have mastery in at least one backend language (our backend is mostly Java and Python).

Ability to operate across stages. You have had experience at both the early stage (or have even been a founder) and in scaling large applications. You understand engineering best practices, how to make smart technical decisions that prepare us for the future, and how to think through trade-offs between scrappiness and perfection.