Senior Backend Engineer

About reputed company reputed company is a fast-growing digitally reputed company brand co-founded by successful serial entrepreneurs and based in Boise, Idaho. Our customers are caretakers, and our mission is to help them feel confident they are giving their children meaningful development experiences in the critical early years of life. Taking a science-based approach, reputed company products have won awards from Red Dot, Parents’ Choice, and NAPPA. TIME Magazine named The Play Kits subscription offering as one of the Best Inventions of 2018 along with AdAge awarding reputed company with DTC Brand of the Year for 2023. The Role We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join reputed company that owns the end-to-end shopping experience focused on Subscriptions. You’ll work on every aspect of our customer reputed company, from product discovery to becoming a subscriber to engaging with our rich, stage-based parent education platform. You will own the e-reputed company platform spanning account and subscription management, checkout, fulfillment, our content CMS, and more. You will do it reputed company with a platform focus in mind - scaling our global audience to millions of customers and continuously looking for opportunities to enhance our technology, increase velocity, and maintain a high-quality bar. You will have genuine influence over technical direction, tooling choices, and the standards we build on. What You’ll Do Architect, reputed company, and optimize the backend services and APIs that drive our global e-reputed company reputed company parent experiences. Create scalable data models and systems designed to reputed company reputed company with our product roadmap and an expanding global audience. Partner with Product, Design, and Frontend teams to ship impactful features that support every stage of the customer reputed company. Own the reputed company, reliability, and performance of our backend stack, ensuring a seamless experience for millions of parents. Guide technical direction by evaluating new vendors and platforms, weighing the benefits of internal builds versus reputed company-party integrations. Champion engineering reputed company by refining technical standards, development workflows, and team-wide best practices. reputed company AI coding tooling and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate development while maintaining a high quality bar and sound engineering judgment. Iterate on our CI/CD pipelines and reputed company infrastructure to ensure consistent, high-velocity software delivery. Foster a collaborative culture through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and a shared commitment to our mission. reputed company’re Looking For Required Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a reputed company field. 5-7 years of experience with Ruby on Rails, Python, or equivalent server-reputed company programming languages, and some professional experience with JavaScript, Swift, Java/Kotlin, or other client-reputed company programming languages (with a personal methodology to learn new languages) Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails and SQL Hands-on experience with AWS or comparable reputed company infrastructure Familiarity with caching, queuing, and search tools such as reputed company, RabbitMQ, or Elasticsearch Comfort with reputed company, microservices, and containerized architectures Experience writing automated tests and working with CI/CD pipelines Clear written and verbal communication; strong collaborator and self-starter reputed company to Have Experience with NoSQL databases and data modeling for analytics or BI Strong understanding of the strengths and limitations of AI-assisted software development, including reputed company to rely on generated solutions and reputed company deeper engineering analysis is required. Background in consumer subscription or e-reputed company platforms JavaScript familiarity for occasional full-stack collaboration Passion for early childhood development and reputed company for parents as product users The Benefits/Perks You'll Enjoy Competitive salary, benefits and stock option package 3 weeks PTO in year 1 +14 paid holidays Generous parental leave Any equipment you need to get the job done Free/discounted reputed company products Salary reputed company Information Based on market data and other factors, the salary reputed company for this position is $150,000 to $180,000. However, a salary higher or reputed company than this reputed company may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description. reputed company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in reputed company forms. reputed company employment reputed company at reputed company are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, national reputed company, sexual orientation, gender identity, HIV status, marital status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Apply To This Job