Staff Backend Engineer

The role

You will shape technical strategy and act as a technical owner for features end-to-end. You will ship scalable distributed systems and mentor a growing team of engineers.

What you will do

• Be the technical owner for features end-to-end
• Ship high quality, secure, and well-tested software that scales as highly distributed systems
• Solve technical problems and coordinate technical roadmap deliveries
• Collaborate with operations, revenue teams, and users to plan feature delivery
• Identify opportunities to work across the stack to meet business needs
• Work with leadership to define product roadmap and technical strategy
• Be a technical leader in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
• Mentor a growing team of engineers through pair programming and code reviews

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building complex applications using a modern language, like Python and/or Typescript
• Experience designing, deploying and operating distributed services on AWS or GCP in production
• Experience moving, ingesting, and transforming data at scale
• Track record of shaping and shipping valuable features
• Judgment to take on technical debt and risk where appropriate
• Comfort with modern AI tools to accelerate development
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
• The humor and humility to maintain perspective during fast-paced work
• Versed in infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Know network security and protecting production applications
• Strong drive to proliferate best practices in your areas of expertise
• Build in the open and encourage others

Nice to have

• preferably with Pulumi

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus
• Equity
• Healthcare covering medical, dental and vision
• 401(k)
• Catered lunch every day in our NYC office
• Unlimited PTO
• Two company-wide shutdowns during the July 4th week and the Christmas – New Year's week

About the company

Vendelux is a Series B SaaS company building a platform for event marketing intelligence. It is backed by investors including Tribeca Ventures, FirstMark and Hubspot Ventures.