Handoff is looking to scale its AI-powered construction management platform, which automates estimating, streamlines operations, and helps remodelers win more work. The company needs to ensure the backend architecture can support increasing workloads, maintain high performance, and enable seamless integration with AI-enhanced user experiences.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Node.js, Python, TypeScript, and SQL.
- Deep knowledge of cloud-based architectures, especially on AWS.
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes, Traefik, containerization, and distributed systems.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring production systems run reliably at scale.
- Experience optimizing API performance and database queries, reducing latency and ensuring seamless data flow between backend and frontend.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable APIs, services, and data pipelines that support mission-critical workflows. Ensure reliability, maintainability, and security across all systems.
- Spearhead improvements in infrastructure and deployment strategies using tools like Kubernetes, Traefik, and AWS. Help us move fast without breaking things.
- Optimize application logic, database queries, and system performance to handle increasing workloads with speed and efficiency.
- Work closely with product, design, and AI teams to deliver backend solutions that support intuitive, AI-enhanced user experiences.
- Provide thoughtful code reviews, share best practices, and help foster a backend culture of quality, pragmatism, and continuous improvement.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability systems that empower the team to ship with confidence and clarity.
Other
- 7+ years in backend development, with a proven track record of building scalable, high-performance applications.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, you’re quick to adapt to changing priorities and balance rapid iteration with high-quality outputs.
- Competitive Salary + Equity
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Relocation Allowance
