About The Role
Backbone is looking for a talented Backend Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for building features, tools, and new experiences for the Backbone application. You will work with other members of the backend team, the client team, data science, product, and many others to turn ideas into reality. You will be critical to delivering on initiatives that will provide the best experience to users who want to get the best mobile game controller on the market.
You will have the opportunity to help influence the product roadmap for the software initiatives. You will use modern technologies and help drive the technical roadmap to ensure Backbone has an awesome codebase.
This is a hybrid position. Join us in the office in Seattle, WA or Atherton, CA once a week (partial in-person required, relocation offered).
Responsibilities
- Develop, architect, and ship new features and tools for our application and other services.
- Build elegant and maintainable code, writing automated tests to enable us to move fast and deliver quality.
- Ensure code quality and maintainability by implementing best practices, performing code reviews, and establishing automated testing frameworks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications and ensure seamless integration of APIs for our client teams.
- Research new technologies and tooling to help improve our backend stack.
- Play a pivotal role in migrating our backend services from Node.js to Go.
Requirements
- 2-5 years of experience in software development
- Experience with Go or TypeScript
- Strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals
- Understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures with an understanding of their strengths and weaknesses
- Experience with modern software development practices, version control systems, and agile methodologies
Bonus Points
- Experience building GraphQL services
- Direct experience with Google Cloud Platform or AWS
Benefits And Perks
- Bi-annual off-sites to spend time with the team
- Offices in Seattle and the SF Bay Area (Atherton)
- Hybrid office model
- 401k match
- Full medical, dental, and vision for all FTE roles
- Free Backbone products (sometimes free games too!)
Benefits Extracted with AI
- 401(k)
- Bi-annual off-sites
- Hybrid office model
- 401k match
- Full medical, dental, and vision for all FTE roles
- Free Backbone products
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