Senior Backend Engineer

Role Overview

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Quo, you will primarily code, architect, and own moderate to complex backend components. You may also lead a small team or project, provide technical guidance, run code reviews, and deliver small to medium end-to-end features.

Potential Areas of Focus

• Use AI and advanced technologies to help customers manage and derive insights from their data
• Optimize customer onboarding experience
• Enable users to set up, manage, and scale accounts via a seamless and compliant process
• Improve messaging and calling features
• Enhance customer data management and improve visibility of conversations and contacts

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable backend systems for a growing user base
• Take ownership of delivered work and communicate effectively
• Provide technical guidance and perform code reviews
• Deliver projects/features end-to-end and improve code quality (readable, testable, maintainable)

Requirements

• Strong experience with TypeScript (or object-oriented languages such as Java or C#) and JavaScript/Node.js
• Strong experience with observability (metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing)
• Strong communication and ownership mindset
• Focus on tradeoffs with empathy and customer impact

Nice-to-Haves / Tools Mentioned

• Familiarity with event-driven microservices and message queues
• Experience working with Kubernetes and AWS

Compensation

• Base salary (Austin): $168,000 – $198,000 USD, plus equity and benefits