Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Superhuman, a company revolutionizing email and productivity, as a Senior Backend Engineer. You will build and maintain critical backend systems driving revenue growth, collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality code quickly. Leveraging technologies like Go, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes, you will own payment processing, monetization features, and scheduled jobs. This role offers significant autonomy and impact, contributing to Superhuman's expansion and business growth. The position requires 3+ years of backend and 5+ years of software development experience, expertise in payment processing systems (especially Stripe), and proficiency in data analysis. Superhuman offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• You have 3+ years of backend development experience and 5+ years of software development experience
• You have experience with payment processing systems, particularly Stripe, including handling subscriptions, refunds, and payment analytics
• You’re proficient in implementing and analyzing telemetry data, working with analytics teams to derive insights from user behavior and feature adoption
• You’re familiar with feature flag systems like LaunchDarkly to support A/B testing and controlled feature rollouts
• You have a deep desire to understand how things work in great detail, to guide you in designing systems, and debugging that arise
• You excel at understanding and solving complex problems. You have astonishing attention to detail
• You take pride in building elegant and beautiful things
• You're open to the best tool for the job. You are excited to learn new technologies
• You can break down tricky topics in writing and in person
• You get a lot done quickly, and can translate your skills into new processes that your team will follow
• You will help to build an inclusive culture and shape our future

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

Location: We're open to you joining us from a home office anywhere in Latin America + Canada

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
• 401(k) plan (we match 75 cents per dollar, up to 4% of your salary)
• Free access to Northstar, a financial wellness platform that provides financial advisors + personal finance tools
• Take as much vacation as you like!
• 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 per year towards your professional development
• Free access to Calm and Aaptiv
• Allyship education program to help build your best self
• Custom MacBook Pro
• $1000 budget for workstation setup
• $60/week for your lunches, groceries, or whatever nutrition you need to stay fueled up!
• Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, dependent care, and healthcare expenses