Paperless Post is looking for a senior backend engineer to help shape and scale the foundational systems that power their product, which serves over 175 million hosts and guests and sees over 5 million unique visitors per month.
Requirements
- Expertise in Golang, with working knowledge of Ruby
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and experience scaling resilient, observable, and well-tested backend services
- Strong working knowledge of databases such as PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization
- Ability to influence architecture and guide technical decisions across teams
- Demonstrated ability to raise and address technical issues that need resolution
- The ability to quickly self-onboard and make impact in new, complex environments
- Expertise with AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, or ChatGPT to operate in agentic mode and accelerate your workflow
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, distributed backend systems in Golang
- Contribute to foundational work to support cross-team product and engineering initiatives
- Partner with PMs and EMs across the company to align on priorities and deliver backend capabilities that unlock new product experiences
- Explore and prototype platform-level ideas such as identity, social graph, and new ways to connect users
- Improve the scalability, reliability, and observability of our backend systems, including the sending pipeline
- Ramp up fast, surface opportunities for improvement, and take ownership in fixing them
- Leverage AI tools in agentic mode to accelerate ideation, design, and delivery of production systems
Other
- Empathy for the people who worked on the code base before you
- A passion for solving hard problems and building foundational systems for others to build upon
- 8+ years of experience as a backend engineer in established, production codebases
- The drive to deliver outsized impact by balancing technical depth, speed, and quality without needing close oversight
- Women, people of color, trans/genderqueer individuals, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are especially encouraged to apply.
