Staff Backend Engineer

Vendelux Inc

• $150K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years building complex applications in modern languages (Java, Typescript, etc.)
  • Proven success in shipping valuable features
  • Experience implementing high-leverage improvements to infrastructure and processes
  • Strong judgment in addressing technical debt and risk
  • Excellent written communication skills, critical for remote collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Own and lead user-impacting projects from design to rollout
  • Engage in code and system design reviews
  • Enhance internal processes and development tools
  • Contribute to user understanding and product discovery with leadership and product teams
  • Assist in team growth through hiring and mentoring efforts.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work setup with a preference for 4 days in-office
  • Opportunity to work in a fast-growing, innovative tech environment
  • Access to a powerful AI-driven platform that enhances event marketing
  • Collaboration with a leadership team experienced in various high-profile tech firms
  • Equal opportunity employer committed to diverse hiring practices.
Full Job Description
What You'll Do
  • Be the technical owner for features end-to-end, including the systems that power our data platforms and best-in-class web application.
  • Ship high quality, secure, and well-tested software that scales as highly distributed systems, using incremental deliveries based on data driven prioritization and decisions.
  • Solve interesting and challenging technical problems, coordinating technical roadmap deliveries across our product team and front end engineers.
  • Collaborate with our operations and revenue teams, as well as our users to respond, react, and plan feature delivery based on user feedback and analytics.
  • Identify opportunities to work across our stack, and areas of the business, to help meet the needs of a quickly scaling business and product.
  • Work closely with our leadership team to define our product roadmap and technical strategy, and continuously improve our development process and engineering practices.
  • Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team.
  • Mentor a growing team of engineers through pair programming and code reviews, on performant, scalable engineering principles, with a focus on iterative delivery.
Who You Are
  • 10+ years of experience building complex applications using a modern language, like Python and/or Typescript.
  • Track record of shaping and shipping valuable features.
  • You have deployed services on AWS or GCP using the best components for the job.
  • Judgment to take on technical debt and risk where appropriate.
  • Comfort with modern AI tools to accelerate development.
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
  • The humor and humility to maintain perspective during fast-paced work.
  • You are versed in infrastructure as code (IaC), preferably with Pulumi.
  • You know a thing or two about network security and protecting production applications.
  • Strong drive to proliferate best practices in your areas of expertise.
  • You build in the open, and encourage others who are interested in your areas of work.
  • Experience moving, ingesting, and transforming data at scale.
Tech Stack
  • Frontend: Typescript, React, MUI/Shadcn, Node.js
  • Backend: Python, Django, Typescript, Node.js, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, GCP
  • Data: Python, Dagster, Snowflake
  • Other tools: Linear, GitHub, Datadog, Cursor / Claude Code
Benefits
  • Competitive base salary and bonus
  • Healthcare covering medical, dental and vision
  • Work from our NYC HQ
  • Catered lunch everyday
  • Unlimited PTO plus two company-wide shutdowns during the July 4th week and the Christmas - New Years week

Not all candidates will check all of the requirements listed above and that's ok! We are open to great people from non-traditional backgrounds.

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