Staff/Senior Backend Engineer
Typeform
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇫🇷 France
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Senior
Tech Stack
GraphQLNode.jsPostgresTypeScriptWeb3
About the role
- Build and maintain reliable, high-performance backend services and APIs
- Design, build and operate backend services in TypeScript/Node and GraphQL
- Collaborate with frontend, product, protocol, risk, and security teams to ship end-to-end outcomes
- Monitor, troubleshoot and improve production systems
- Simplify systems: reduce complexity, pay down tech debt, standardise patterns
- Drive cross-team initiatives, sponsor technical design, mentor engineers (for senior roles)
Requirements
- ~3-5 years building backend systems, working with GraphQL APIs and relational databases (especially PostgreSQL)
- ~8-10+ years of backend development, leading cross-team designs and shipping large ambiguous projects
- Strong bias for action, ownership mindset and first-principles problem-solving
- Excellent written and async communication across time zones; team-first collaboration and low-ego approach
- Genuine curiosity for crypto/Web3 ecosystems and continuous learning mindset.
Benefits
- Fair, top-tier compensation
- Real flexibility
- Great health coverage
- Support to keep learning
- Time together in Paris
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
TypeScriptNode.jsGraphQLbackend developmentrelational databasesPostgreSQLAPI developmentproduction systems monitoringtechnical designsystem simplification
Soft skills
ownership mindsetproblem-solvingwritten communicationasync communicationteam collaborationlow-ego approachmentoringcross-team initiativescuriositycontinuous learning