Senior Backend Engineer

Quo

$187K — $220K *
US-AnywhereRemote in New York City, NY
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, ideally with Typescript or similar languages (Java/C#/Node)
  • Strong understanding of observability tools including metrics and tracing
  • Proficient in creating readable, maintainable code
  • Demonstrated capability to lead small teams or projects
  • Passionate about customer impact and empathetic in decision-making
  • Curious mindset with a commitment to continuous learning

Responsibilities

  • Develop and architect complex backend systems using Node and Typescript
  • Lead small teams or projects to successful completion
  • Conduct technical guidance and code reviews for peers
  • Design and deliver end-to-end small/medium projects
  • Focus on optimizing customer onboarding experience
  • Enhance core messaging and data management features

Benefits

  • Equity in the company
  • Comprehensive medical coverage
  • Monthly lifestyle stipend
  • Flexible PTO policy
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Quo, you will spend a majority of your time coding, architecting, and owning moderate to complex components. Beyond your technical work, you may also lead a small team or a project. You might also spend time providing technical guidance, code reviews, and design and delivering on small/medium size projects end-to-end.

Potential areas of focus include:

  • Leveraging AI and advanced technologies to help customers manage and derive insights from their data, optimizing the customer onboarding experience.
  • Empowering users to independently set up, manage, and scale their accounts with a seamless and compliant process.
  • Enhancing core messaging and calling features, improving customer data management, and optimizing the visibility of conversations and contacts.


In any of these areas, you'll have the opportunity to tackle impactful challenges and help build scalable backend systems that will support a growing user base.

Technical stack and tools:

  • Our backend is built on Node using Typescript.
  • We use Kubernetes on AWS to orchestrate our infrastructure setup and deployment.
  • The overall architecture is event-driven microservices with RabbitMQ at the center of it.
  • We use a variety of databases for different purposes: Postgres, Mongo, Elastic, and Redis.
  • Observability Tools: Datadog
  • Other Tools: Figma, Linear, Notion, and Slack


About you

  • Strong experience with Typescript, or experience with object-oriented languages such as Java or C# and Javascript/Node.
  • Strong experience with observability tools, including metrics, structured logging and distributed tracing
  • You take ownership of your work and understand the importance of communication. You hold yourself to a high standard and help empower others to do the same.
  • You are intentional about how your work impacts customers, the community, and each other. You practice empathy, generosity, and thoughtfulness as you evaluate tradeoffs in pursuit of the best solution.
  • You are curious. You better seek to understand the 'why' behind things, so that you can better plan and build the 'how'. You support your teammates and customers through the continuous pursuit of knowledge. You're a lifelong learner.
  • Your code is a pleasure for your teammates to read and understand and you strive to ensure it is readable, testable, and maintainable.. When working in the codebase, you leave things better than you found them.


Compensation

The annual base salary range for this position in New York City is $187,000 - $220,000 USD, plus equity and benefits. This range is designed to align with market rates in areas where we are actively recruiting across the United States of America.

The range displayed reflects the target for new hire salaries, and within this range, individual pay is determined by your skills and experience, as well as relevant education. Your recruiter can share more and answer questions about the specific salary range during the hiring process.

Salary is just one component of Quo's total compensation package. Your total rewards package will include equity, extensive medical coverage, a monthly lifestyle stipend, and a flexible PTO policy.

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