Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Sherpa°, a leading travel technology company, as a Backend Engineer and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of our robust backend systems. You will work with a cutting-edge tech stack, including TypeScript, NodeJS, and Google Cloud Platform, to build scalable and high-performance solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize performance and ensure a seamless user experience. This role offers the opportunity to work on diverse projects, from authentication flows to AI logic, in a fast-paced startup environment. As a fully remote position, you'll enjoy a generous compensation and benefits package, including unlimited vacation, comprehensive health benefits, and professional development opportunities. Sherpa° values its employees and fosters a collaborative and supportive work culture.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in full-time software development roles
• Experience in building complex features on the frontend that delight users
• Experience building and maintaining design systems
• Strong understanding of how the web works
• Thrive in a free-floating collaborative environment with other teams to identify high-impact ways of solving problems quickly
• Excellent oral and written communication

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our backend infrastructure. You will take co-ownership of our backend infrastructure, which hosts our authentication flow, payment systems, AI logic, feature management and data processing
• Design and build. You will have a key voice in how we architect and integrate our solutions
• Improve performance and care about quality. We dog food our own solutions. You focus on shipping software that matters to your users and that matter to Sherpa
• Wear many hats. In a small startup, we’re all generalists. You might work with our finance team on partner commission dashboards and create custom reports from BigQuery or set up an internal API endpoint and dive into setting up a load balancer in GCP using Terraform

Preferred Qualifications

• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services and know how to compose a service-oriented architecture
• Proven track record of leading by example in mentoring code quality, standards, best practices, software design and architecture patterns
• You’re product-minded, enjoy collaboration and take initiative to turn ideas into launched solutions

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Annual employee options program
• Unlimited vacation with a minimum of four weeks
• Unlimited health and wellness days
• Parental leave
• Health and dental benefits from day one
• Learning and development opportunities
• Work from anywhere
• Home office allowance, so you have the best tools to be productive
• Monthly co-working allowance for in-person connections
• Mobile phone allowance
• Annual team offsite
• Cool swag to flaunt the brand