Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

Role Overview

As a Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer, you'll help scale Rally's core systems and services to power hundreds of millions of participant records and billions of events. You'll join a small, senior group of builders focused on craftsmanship, reliability, and creating leverage for product teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Scale and evolve backend systems managing large-scale participant and event data, improving performance, reliability, and responsiveness
• Own critical infrastructure including email/SMS delivery, data sync pipelines, search APIs, and workflow automation with a focus on observability and operational excellence
• Drive platform evolution from 1→10: strengthening existing services to handle greater scale, tighter SLAs, and deeper product integration
• Design and implement backend services and APIs in TypeScript across the full stack
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, GTM, and the founding team to shape product direction

Technical Stack

• Languages: TypeScript
• Infrastructure: AWS, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Temporal
• Focus Areas: Email/SMS delivery, data pipelines, search, workflow automation, AI-driven features

Team & Work Style

• Remote-first within the United States with async collaboration
• Optional in-person team onsites
• Highly collaborative, user-obsessed engineering group
• Small, empowered teams with high ownership and tight feedback loops

About the Opportunity

Rally has strong product-market fit and a fast-growing customer base with plenty of hard, interesting problems to solve. You'll help define the future of how companies run user research—from ad-hoc projects to continuous learning.