Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Sherpa°, a leading travel technology company, as a Senior Backend Engineer. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining our backend systems, which power authentication, payments, AI, and data processing. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop scalable solutions and optimize performance. This role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced startup environment, utilizing technologies like TypeScript, NodeJS, and Google Cloud Platform. You will contribute to a robust API and various backend infrastructure components. Sherpa° offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible remote work environment.

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