
Senior Backend Engineer, GraphQL
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $191,000 - $225,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Driving partnerships with tenant product teams to inform the tooling roadmap as well as taking on metrics and tracing scaling challenges that push the boundaries of our existing observability infrastructure
- Frequently working in vaguely scoped areas, responsible for defining project requirements for improving reliability and performance, through Viaduct framework changes and tenant-centric observability
- Developing technical expertise in Viaduct framework as well as informed with product teams’ use cases and requests
- Supporting the customer base of Viaduct developers and ensuring that their code gets deployed daily to production
- Get into the flow during daily and intentional Focus Time blocks
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in a relevant role - ideally in a team that owned a developer platform
- Proficiency and interest working cross-team with both product and infrastructure engineers
- Experience operating critical online backend services
- Comfort shipping high visibility, complex coding projects
- Strong preference: expertise with GraphQL, Kotlin, AI-enabled development flows
Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
- Base pay dependent on experience and market demands
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Viaduct frameworkGraphQLKotlinbackend servicescoding projects
Soft Skills
cross-team collaborationdefining project requirementscustomer supportreliability improvementperformance improvement