🎉 Backend Engineer, Engagement

The role

A mid-level Backend Engineer will build and ship features for the Engagement squad including live audio rooms, reactions, and clips. You will work with iOS and Android engineers, product, design, and data science to improve user engagement and retention.

What you will do

• Build, instrument, and ship features across live rooms, reactions, clips, houses, and replays.
• Run experiments with data scientists.
• Evolve backend systems balancing iteration with code health and scalability.
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers, and data scientists to deliver features.
• Advocate for simplicity by making thoughtful tradeoffs.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of backend experience in a language like Python or Ruby
• Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB)
• Use AI coding tools every day

Nice to have

• Excited to ship AI-powered features in voice

About the company

Alpha is a product studio focused on the intersection of AI and consumer social. Their flagship product, Clubhouse, pioneered social audio.