Senior Backend Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Quo, you will spend a majority of your time

coding, architecting, and owning moderate to complex components. Beyond your

technical work, you may also lead a small team or a project. You might also

spend time providing technical guidance, code reviews, and design and delivering

on small/medium size projects end-to-end.

POTENTIAL AREAS OF FOCUS INCLUDE:

* Leveraging AI and advanced technologies to help customers manage and derive

insights from their data, optimizing the customer onboarding experience.

* Empowering users to independently set up, manage, and scale their accounts

with a seamless and compliant process.

* Enhancing core messaging and calling features, improving customer data

management, and optimizing the visibility of conversations and contacts.

In any of these areas, you’ll have the opportunity to tackle impactful

challenges and help build scalable backend systems that will support a growing

user base.

TECHNICAL STACK AND TOOLS:

* Our backend is built on Node using Typescript.

* We use Kubernetes on AWS to orchestrate our infrastructure setup and

deployment.

* The overall architecture is event-driven microservices with RabbitMQ at the

center of it.

* We use a variety of databases for different purposes: Postgres, Mongo,

Elastic, and Redis.

* Observability Tools: Datadog

* Other Tools: Figma, Linear, Notion, and Slack

ABOUT YOU

* Strong experience with Typescript, or experience with object-oriented

languages such as Java or C# and Javascript/Node.

* Strong experience with observability tools, including metrics, structured

logging and distributed tracing

* You take ownership of your work and understand the importance of

communication. You hold yourself to a high standard and help empower others

to do the same.

* You are intentional about how your work impacts customers, the community, and

each other. You practice empathy, generosity, and thoughtfulness as you

evaluate tradeoffs in pursuit of the best solution.

* You are curious. You better seek to understand the ‘why’ behind things, so

that you can better plan and build the ‘how’. You support your teammates and

customers through the continuous pursuit of knowledge. You’re a lifelong

learner.

* Your code is a pleasure for your teammates to read and understand and you

strive to ensure it is readable, testable, and maintainable.. When working in

the codebase, you leave things better than you found them.

COMPENSATION

The annual base salary range for this position in New York City is $187,000 -

$220,000 USD, plus equity and benefits. This range is designed to align with

market rates in areas where we are actively recruiting across the United States

of America.

The range displayed reflects the target for new hire salaries, and within this

range, individual pay is determined by your skills and experience, as well as

relevant education. Your recruiter can share more and answer questions about the

specific salary range during the hiring process.

Salary is just one component of Quo's total compensation package. Your total

rewards package will include equity, extensive medical coverage, a monthly

lifestyle stipend, and a flexible PTO policy.