[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Quo

Role Description

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.

• 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 Temporal and 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

Qualifications

• 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 and seek to understand the ‘why’ behind things.
• Your code is a pleasure for your teammates to read and understand.
• You strive to ensure it is readable, testable, and maintainable.
• You embrace AI and find ways to use it to improve your work.

Requirements

• Experience with Typescript or similar object-oriented languages.
• Familiarity with observability tools.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively.
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

Compensation

The annual base salary range for this position is as follows, plus equity and benefits:

• SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Boston, New York, and Washington, DC Metro: $187,000 - $220,000 USD
• All other US Locations: $169,000 - $198,000 USD
• Canada: $172,000 - $202,000 CAD

Your total rewards package will include equity, extensive medical coverage, a monthly lifestyle stipend, and a flexible PTO policy.

Company Description

We're a remote-first company with a culture of trust, autonomy, and action. As we rapidly grow, we're intentionally building communities in a handful of hub cities while continuing to hire great talent wherever they happen to live.

• We encourage you to apply for this role even if you don't think you meet all the requirements.
• We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.