Full-Stack Engineer @ CueBox, Performing Arts Software Startup

CueBox

$145K — $185K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience in startups.
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.
  • Experience building performant data-intensive applications with strongly typed backend languages.
  • Strong product sense and customer empathy.
  • Excellent skills in API and database schema design.
  • Experience integrating Backend APIs with TypeScript/React frontend.
  • Ability to independently manage large problem areas.

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale backend systems as the company grows.
  • Develop new features and product areas from the ground up.
  • Influence technical direction as the product evolves.
  • Engage in technical design discussions and conduct code reviews.
  • Work with a tech stack including Golang, Postgres, and React/Next.js.

Benefits

  • Competitive equity package
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Complimentary one-medical membership
  • 401k
Full Job Description
Location

CueBox is headquartered in New York City, and we are a hybrid workplace. Our team is in the office 3 days a week, Tuesday-Thursday.
About You

We are looking for backend-leaning full-stack engineers who love building delightful and performant products, are excited to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and want to collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team!
Requirements
  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including prior experience at an early or mid stage startup.
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • Proven track record of building performant, data-intensive applications using a strongly typed backend language in a complex domain.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Strong product sense and high customer empathy; genuine desire to build the best possible product for our users.
  • Excels at thoughtful API design and database schema/query design.
  • Experience with integrating Backend APIs with a TypeScript/React frontend.
  • Ability to work independently and successfully own large or ambiguous problem areas.
  • Effective verbal and written communication for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
  • Experience with online payments, consumer facing flows, or reporting/analytics for large datasets.
  • (Nice-to-Have) Experience building AI-enabled features in SaaS products.
About the Role

This role reports directly to the Head of Engineering. You will:
  • Build, maintain and scale our backend systems as we grow.
  • Pioneer new features and product areas.
  • Meaningfully influence technical direction as the product evolves.
  • Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence through technical design discussion, code review, and documentation.
  • Work in our current tech stack: Golang/Protobuf/Postgres backend; React/Next.js/Chakra UI frontend; Python data pipelines; hosted on GCP.

Current and Upcoming Projects include:
  • Building brand new products such as educational/youth-programming modules and data-driven pricing.
  • Improving performance, user experience and accessibility of consumer-facing checkout flows.
  • Scaling up and rearchitecting our backend systems to handle more user traffic and heavier analytics workloads.
  • Building features to facilitate bulk adding and updating records.
  • Continuing to enhance our payments processing functionality, including split payments, Pay Later, and Fraud Prevention.
Summary of Benefits
  • Base salary ~$145-185k
  • Competitive equity package
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Complimentary one-medical membership
  • 401k

Note: We do not offer visa sponsorship at this time.

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