Backend Engineer

We’ve just raised our Series A, giving you the opportunity to join at an ideal time for rapid growth and as a core first-10 engineer. We are expanding the breadth of our platform and are constantly shipping new and impactful products to bolster our lead in the space. It’s a fun challenge being first to market: we have no one to copy and an entire industry to lead.

We are a tech and product-led company that gives its engineers ownership and autonomy in everything they do. We thrive off a good challenge, always seeing it as an opportunity to innovate, learn, and grow as individuals, a team, and a company. Join us in NYC, or remotely from the US and France.

Backend Engineer mission

• We develop and scale robust backend applications that allow many users to run hundreds of automated tests,
• We are passionate about building proprietary algorithms to solve complex and challenging engineering problems,
• We collaborate with Product and Engineering to drive the implementation and release of major features,
• We design tools and monitoring systems to detect unexpected errors and behaviors.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in a backend stack (NodeJS, Scala, Python, etc.),
• Meaningful experience architecting, designing, and implementing highly available, scalable, and performant APIs,
• Comfortable in NodeJS,
• Competency in AWS solutions is appreciated,
• Eager to learn and share knowledge (hackathons, tech blog posts, etc.)

Benefits & perks

• New York Salaries: $140K-$180K, based on level and generous early-stage stock options
• An opportunity to drive impact as a first-10 engineer
• Being part of a talent-dense team working to build great products that help mobile teams ship faster
• A new office in Brooklyn, NY, with a fully remote option
• Yearly off-sites around the world, and several on-sites in NYC
• Unlimited PTO, take it when you need it
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Subscription to Teledoc, OneMedical, Kindbody, and ClassPass

More on Waldo

• Inside our product process
• Why John, our Lead iOS, joined Waldo after 30y+ of programming
• Waldo vs. Scripting
• UXarchive, our gift to the mobile community