Backend Engineer
Role Overview
As a Backend Engineer at UpCodes, you will be a foundational member of the engineering team, responsible for all backend work to ship new features for the web app. This mid-level role (3+ years of experience) involves a fast-paced startup environment where you'll handle diverse tasks like API design, data engineering, and algorithms, with each contribution directly impacting 800k monthly active users. You'll work across the backend stack and may learn frontend technologies, focusing on clean code and systems design to drive meaningful improvements.
Perks & Benefits
This is a fully remote position, offering flexibility in work location. As a startup, you'll have opportunities for rapid career growth by learning new technologies across the stack, including backend and frontend tools. The team emphasizes a close connection to the market and a frequent shipping cadence, fostering a collaborative and impactful culture where your work has immediate user impact, with no specific time zone expectations mentioned, typical of remote tech roles.
Full Job Description
THE ROLE
As a foundational member of our engineering team, you'll do all backend work to help ship new features for our web app.
We have a frequent cadence of shipping new features and a close connection to our market. With 800k monthly active users spending hundreds of thousands of hours on the platform, each contribution and feature you ship will have a meaningful impact for the users.
Since we're a startup, you'll have to be willing to get your hands dirty with (and learn) lots of technologies across the backend stack: API design, data engineering, algorithms, startup engineering, analytics, monitoring, web crawling, etc. as well as the frontend stack (it's fine to not have any frontend experience starting out).
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
3+ years of experience with backend engineering
Clean simple code, even when solving complex problems
Good systems design
Ability to learn new tech quickly
Enjoyable to work with
TECHNOLOGY STACK
Python, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Redis, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Pinecone, OpenAI
EXAMPLE PROJECTS
Use an LLM to identify references to other sections in the text of the law
Improve and migrate our data model for the content we host
Retrieve semi-structured data from various online sources and automate the structuring of the data
Improve the evaluation framework for our search engine
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