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Backend Engineer

San FranciscoOn-site$140K - $290K1 - 6 years
We're building the infrastructure that makes finding exceptional talent feel inevitable, not impossible. Every day, our systems match niche roles at high-growth startups and VC firms with the specialized recruiters who can actually fill them — and the backend is where that intelligence lives. You'll design data models that capture the nuance of thousands of overlapping skill sets, build APIs that power a two-sided marketplace, and ensure our matching logic gets smarter with every placement. This is a role for engineers who see PostgreSQL schemas as puzzles and take quiet pride in response times measured in single-digit milliseconds.

What they're looking for

  • 1–6 years of professional experience building and maintaining production backend systems
  • Deep fluency with TypeScript and NodeJS, including experience designing REST or GraphQL APIs
  • Strong relational data modeling skills in PostgreSQL, with opinions on indexing and query optimization
  • Comfort owning deployment pipelines and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Terraform, CI/CD)
  • A habit of writing clear, minimal design docs before reaching for the keyboard

Tech stack

PostgreSQLNodeJSTypeScriptCICDAWSTerraformGCP

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