Lead Software Engineer (BFF)

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BFF is a platform for finding friends and communities online, and getting together IRL.

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BFF is a platform for finding friends and communities online, and getting together IRL. BFF provides a rich set of communication and engagement tools that allows users to discover communities and find friends. Find your people online, get together offline.

As a member of the BFF backend team, you'll help in continuing to build features and maintain existing TypeScript/Golang GraphQL services. You'll be heavily involved in the product development process and given the opportunity to give creative input into many phases of the development lifecycle. You’ll work on something that will have mass impact, mass adoption, and mass reach.

This is a high-impact role where your contributions will directly help guide all of the applications that depend on our backend services (iOS/Android/web). You'll work closely with our product, design, and outreach teams to help the communities on Geneva flourish. The role will require you to partner with multiple cross-functional teams as stakeholders/customers. If you love product ideation, owning, collaborating, building, and constantly raising the bar, you will thrive in this role.

Develop horizontally scalable backend systems using TypeScript and Go, designed to handle millions of concurrent users

Design and implement GraphQL APIs to support our client applications

Establish and maintain a comprehensive testing strategy, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests

Guide features through the full development lifecycle, from conception through production deployment and maintenance.

Collaborate closely with product, design, and client engineers to refine and develop product requirements, ensure seamless integration, and optimal user experiences

7+ years of relevant experience in backend development

Experience acting in a lead role wherein you contribute to architecture, design, and mentorship

Strong proficiency in TypeScript or Go

Experience building and maintaining GraphQL APIs

Experience with SQL and noSQL (ie Redis, DynamoDB) databases

Expertise in implementing thorough testing strategies

Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization technologies

Experience working through the entire product development lifecycle from inception to development and delivery

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

Strong communication abilities and experience working in cross-functional teams

Help BFF find product market fit.

Opportunity to shape the roadmap, engineers work closely with product and design throughout the entire product development process

Drive architecture decisions, have a wide impact on how BFF is built

Be part of a culture that values respect, excellence, curiosity, courage and joy.

Enjoy competitive compensation, equity, and world-class benefits.

This role is based in Austin or New York, and we ask that you’re within a commutable distance to this office, so that you’re able to come onsite regularly to collaborate across engineering teams.

Please note: We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time