Senior Software Engineer I/II – Backend

Dispel

full-time

Posted on: 10/3/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $134,000 - $150,000 per year

Senior

CloudDistributed SystemsGoJavaScriptNode.jsPythonRustTypeScript

About the role

Solve features and bugs.
Begin to take on ambiguous tasks.
Independently and reliably deliver high-impact software.
Owns and drives end-to-end development of significant features or services.
Translates ambiguous or broad goals into concrete technical deliverables.
Balances short-term velocity with long-term maintainability and scalability.
Identifies technical and product risks early and implements mitigation strategies.
Writes clean, well-tested, and performant code with clear documentation.
Actively supports the growth of teammates through pairing, feedback, and sharing context.
Builds onboarding resources or gives talks that help others ramp up faster.
Collaborates cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering teams.
Pushes for clarity in goals, scope, and priorities across teams.
Reviews designs and PRs with a lens toward team-wide and long-term health.
Proactively identifies and addresses tech debt and architectural deficiencies.

4+ years of experience.
Skilled in Unit testing and E2E testing.
Fast learner. Degrees and certificates aren’t a determining factor for us. Rather, we value your ability to care about your work and learn fast.
Communication and team culture are very important at Dispel. You’ll be joining a collaborative team where new ideas and contributions are encouraged.
Must be expert in one of our main languages (Python, TypeScript, JavaScript).
Comfortable in one or more of: Python, TypeScript, NodeJS, Go, Rust.
Must have been deeply involved with several APIs.
Understanding of cloud and how the code written will run is required.
Must have good understanding of Databases, Caches, Queues, Events, Lambdas and Workers.
Bonus Points: Very strong DB knowledge. Good understanding of distributed systems and other architectures and their tradeoffs.

Benefits

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PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptNodeJSGoRustUnit testingE2E testingAPIsDatabases

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