Staff Backend Engineer (Founding Team)

📋 Description

• Take end-to-end ownership of the technology as the founding engineer, helping establish the
• Design, build, and evolve robust backend systems, including APIs, services, databases, data models
• Own backend engineering while contributing across the stack when required to deliver product
• Partner closely with the founding team to shape product direction, technical strategy, and
• Take features from idea to production, including technical design, implementation, testing
• Make practical technology choices suited to a small, fast-moving team, balancing scalability

🎯 Requirements

• 7–10 years of software engineering experience, with strong expertise in Node.js and TypeScript.
• Extensive backend engineering experience combined with the ability and willingness to work across
• A track record of working primarily within product-based organizations and building software with a
• Proven experience taking products, platforms, or major features from 0 to 1 and bringing them into
• Strong experience designing backend architectures, APIs, databases, distributed services, and
• Demonstrated ownership and independence, with the ability to make sound engineering decisions in a

🎁 Benefits

• Full-time contract opportunity with a remote-first setup for candidates based in India.
• Compensation structured as contract income, without standard employee salary deductions.
• Depending on individual eligibility and tax circumstances, candidates may potentially claim up to
• This contract structure may provide meaningful tax efficiency compared with a conventional salaried
• High degree of autonomy and ownership within a small, fast-moving team.
• Opportunity to join at an early stage and have substantial influence over product, architecture