Senior Backend Software Engineer
Remote
United States, Canada
$162,000 - $306,000/yearly
Senior Level
Top Benefits
401k retirement plan
Flexible parental leave
$3000 annual professional development stipend
About the role
Who you are
- Experience: You have 5+ years of software development experience, with 4+ years focused on backend development. You’re an expert in Go, Typescript, or Python. You have deep expertise in architecting for performance and scale
- AI Enthusiast: You believe AI will revolutionize how we work as well as the experiences that we create for our customers. Driven by passion and curiosity, you leverage AI to dramatically increase your own productivity and the impact of your team
- Remarkable Quality: You produce work that is striking, worthy of attention, and a contribution to the state of the art
- Asynchronous Communicator: You’re effective across various mediums (especially Slack, Notion, and email) and can produce and consume detailed written materials as needed without sacrificing speed. You respond quickly and thoughtfully to unblock others and speed things up
- Start-to-Finish Ownership: Acts with 100% responsibility for their own outcomes as well as the outcomes of the company
- Bias to action: Speed matters. Takes rapid and decisive steps forward, even in the face of uncertainty, recognizing action is the catalyst for progress and growth
- Growth Mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow
What the job involves
- Design, develop, and scale backend systems that serve millions of users
- Power amazing user experiences by building new features and improving existing ones
- Evaluate and refine solutions to deliver a highly performant and exceptionally reliable backend system
- Become an expert in backend development and expand your development across the stack and to various platforms
- Collaborate across teams to define how our systems should evolve
- Support code quality, new technologies, and architectural design within the company
- Uphold and advance the security and reliability of Superhuman’s systems
- Technologies we use: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Google Cloud
Benefits
- Friday wins: a weekly event where entire teams gather to share what they have accomplished during that week
- Super buddies: in your first week you are paired with an experienced team member outside your team to help you settle and show you the ropes
- Lunch roulette: Every Wednesday, teams are split into random groups of two or three to grab lunch outside the office
- 401k
- Flexible parental leave
- $3000 per year towards your professional development
- Allyship education program to help build your best self
- Custom MacBook Pro
- $3000 budget for workstation setup
- All your lunches catered or expensed
- Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, dependent care, and healthcare expenses
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Senior Backend Software Engineer
Remote
United States, Canada
$162,000 - $306,000/yearly
Senior Level
Top Benefits
401k retirement plan
Flexible parental leave
$3000 annual professional development stipend
About the role
Who you are
- Experience: You have 5+ years of software development experience, with 4+ years focused on backend development. You’re an expert in Go, Typescript, or Python. You have deep expertise in architecting for performance and scale
- AI Enthusiast: You believe AI will revolutionize how we work as well as the experiences that we create for our customers. Driven by passion and curiosity, you leverage AI to dramatically increase your own productivity and the impact of your team
- Remarkable Quality: You produce work that is striking, worthy of attention, and a contribution to the state of the art
- Asynchronous Communicator: You’re effective across various mediums (especially Slack, Notion, and email) and can produce and consume detailed written materials as needed without sacrificing speed. You respond quickly and thoughtfully to unblock others and speed things up
- Start-to-Finish Ownership: Acts with 100% responsibility for their own outcomes as well as the outcomes of the company
- Bias to action: Speed matters. Takes rapid and decisive steps forward, even in the face of uncertainty, recognizing action is the catalyst for progress and growth
- Growth Mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow
What the job involves
- Design, develop, and scale backend systems that serve millions of users
- Power amazing user experiences by building new features and improving existing ones
- Evaluate and refine solutions to deliver a highly performant and exceptionally reliable backend system
- Become an expert in backend development and expand your development across the stack and to various platforms
- Collaborate across teams to define how our systems should evolve
- Support code quality, new technologies, and architectural design within the company
- Uphold and advance the security and reliability of Superhuman’s systems
- Technologies we use: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Google Cloud
Benefits
- Friday wins: a weekly event where entire teams gather to share what they have accomplished during that week
- Super buddies: in your first week you are paired with an experienced team member outside your team to help you settle and show you the ropes
- Lunch roulette: Every Wednesday, teams are split into random groups of two or three to grab lunch outside the office
- 401k
- Flexible parental leave
- $3000 per year towards your professional development
- Allyship education program to help build your best self
- Custom MacBook Pro
- $3000 budget for workstation setup
- All your lunches catered or expensed
- Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, dependent care, and healthcare expenses
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance