Faros

Lead Software Engineer – Backend

Faros

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San MateoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $210,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Architect, build, and scale our highly scalable data infrastructure and core engineering platforms
  • Lead from the front by writing high-quality, resilient code, establishing architectural standards, and building best practices for backend services/APIs
  • Act as a technical partner to product and engineering leadership, translating business strategy into technical roadmaps and mentoring other engineers.

Requirements

  • 5–8+ years with ownership of critical components or services
  • Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript + Node.js and/or Python
  • Experience designing/consuming/implementing REST/GraphQL APIs
  • Experience with building & productionizing web services, data pipelines, ETL/ELT, orchestration frameworks
  • Strong database fundamentals (SQL/NoSQL)
  • CI/CD familiarity (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.)
  • Experience running production workloads including monitoring, alerting, logging, metrics, traces, oncall
  • Security fundamentals
  • Hands-on experience with one of more major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP (certifications are a plus)
  • Comfortable working with distributed international teams
  • Strong ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
  • English C1: able to participate in technical calls and write clear communication.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptNode.jsPythonREST APIsGraphQL APIsweb servicesdata pipelinesETLELTSQL
Soft Skills
mentoringcommunicationcollaborationleadershiptechnical trade-offs