Staff Backend Engineer

About the role

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to own and drive the highest-leverage technical work across Blitzy's backend platform, infrastructure, and AI product surface. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will operate with broad technical scope, working alongside our founding team to set direction on some of the hardest problems in our system.

What you'll do

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap for one or more core areas of the platform, balancing speed, quality, security, and scalability
• Write, review, and ship production code that drives meaningful customer and business outcomes, while shaping how the rest of the team writes and reviews code
• Leverage Generative AI tools daily to improve the quality, speed, and effectiveness of both technical and non-technical work, and help others on the team do the same
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex production issues, driving postmortems and fixes that prevent them from recurring
• Champion improvements across the enterprise software development lifecycle, advocating for better ways of building, deploying, and operating software company-wide

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• Python
• Git
• SQL
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Java
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Node.js
• AWS
• GCP
• FastAPI
• Express.js
• Azure