Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Superhuman as a Senior Backend Engineer in the AI Pod and build and improve the architecture supporting Superhuman’s AI features. Collaborate with engineers across diverse skill sets and work with tools and systems such as Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, Redis, LLMs, Vector Databases, and more. Design, develop, and scale backend systems serving millions of users, power amazing user experiences, and evaluate and refine solutions for high performance and reliability. Become a backend development expert, expanding your development across the stack and various platforms. Collaborate across teams to define system evolution and support code quality, new technologies, and architectural design. Uphold and advance the security and reliability of Superhuman’s systems. This role requires 8+ years of software development experience, with 4+ years focused on backend development and expertise in Go, Typescript, or Python. Superhuman offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Requirements

• You have 8+ 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance: 100% coverage for you and 75% coverage for all your dependents
• Voluntary insurance: short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance
• ����🇸 US-based employees: 401(k) plan (we match 75 cents per dollar, up to 4% of your salary)
• ����🇦 Canadian-based employees: A stipend for your RRSP up to 3% of your salary
• Free access to Northstar, a financial wellness platform that provides financial advisors + personal finance tools
• Enjoy our generous and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy, with our amazing team members taking an average of 20 days per year
• 13 additional company holidays, plus your own Care Days, Flexible Holidays, and a company-wide Winter Break
• Generous parental, caregiver, healthcare, and compassionate leave policies
• $3000 USD per year towards your professional development
• Free access to Calm and Taskhuman
• Allyship education program to help build your best self
• Custom MacBook Pro
• $1000 USD budget for workstation setup
• $260 USD/month for your lunches, groceries, or whatever nutrition you need to stay fueled up!
• Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, dependent care, and healthcare expenses