Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Backend Engineer at Siena, a remote-first startup revolutionizing the customer service industry with autonomous AI agents. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, contributing to product development, and mentoring other team members. Requirements include 4+ years of backend experience, familiarity with AWS cloud system, experience with Postgres, and CI/CD.

Requirements

• Have previous experience working on the backend for 4+ years
• Ideally with NodeJS, Typescript & Express
• Are familiar with the AWS. cloud system. (EKS, ECS, Fargate)
• Have experience working with Postgres. (or similar)
• Have experience with CI/CD. (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)

Responsibilities

• Own projects end to end
• Contribute with ideas and constructive feedback to the product's development from the roadmap all the way to architecture
• Develop and collaborate closely with the Product team to slice and dice scope and deliver piece by piece
• Mentorship: you have the ability to mentor and lead other members about 20% of time if you have an appetence for it
• Problem-solving: you unblock yourself and other team members when they hit a roadblock

Preferred Qualifications

• You have a high degree of technical knowledge around scaling systems
• You have been in a startup from Seed to exit
• You have experience working in remote teams

Benefits

• The flexibility to work from anywhere.. Even if it's just from the comfort of your own bed (because let's face it, who doesn't love a good WFH situation?)
• Flexible working hours.. Because who said you can't design your day on your terms?
• Competitive salary and stock options.. We offer highly competitive salaries and equity, because we're building this together
• Unlimited PTO.. With unlimited paid time off and a minimum of 15 days off per year, you'll have plenty of time to explore the world (or just your couch)
• Growth stipend.. An annual budget to continue learning and expanding your horizons. It's like getting a raise without having to ask for it. We invest in you, so you can continue to invest in yourself