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Intermediate Backend Engineer, AMER

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Remote, Canada; Remote, United States

Our take: The real work here is taking backend features from a fuzzy problem through to running in production, on a platform millions of people depend on, with honest code review as your fastest way to grow.

You will take backend features from a fuzzy problem all the way to running in production, working in Ruby, Go or whatever the job needs, on a platform millions of people rely on. If you like owning your work, learning through honest code review, and writing clearly enough to thrive in a remote async team, this is a place to grow your judgement fast. AI is a real part of the daily craft here, and you get to develop the sense of when to trust it and when not to.

Needs

  • writing backend code
  • building apis
  • data modelling
  • debugging failures
  • automated testing
  • clear writing

Rewards

  • real ownership
  • impact at scale
  • a learning loop
  • remote autonomy

Demands

  • being on call
  • async communication
  • daily ai use
  • risk judgement

Grows

  • engineering judgement
  • clean code
  • systems design
  • weighing tradeoffs

Values

  • transparency
  • user focus
  • craftsmanship
  • pragmatism

Drains

  • chasing runtime failures
  • reviewing others code
  • correcting ai output

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