Senior Backend Engineer (Platform)

As an engineering lead on our Platform Engineering team, you will work as a backend focused fullstack engineer as well as provide technical leadership and career mentorship to other team members. Thinking holistically about architecture, scalability, monitoring, and reliability, you’ll build new systems and revamp existing ones, turning our platform infrastructure and services into robust technical systems. You’ll also design projects and approaches that help other team members level up.

You’ll split your time between leading your own projects (researching, designing, and programming) and working with other team members (reviewing PRs, mentoring and guiding). You’ll work on:

• System design, architecture and writing tech specs
• Programming (we mostly use Typescript)
• Reviewing code and providing great feedback while ensuring consistency
• Pair programming with other team members to help mentor and up-level them

• Help manage our library of over 150+ integrations.
• Think through the similarity and differences of the platforms Hightouch integrates with and the different use cases our customers want solved.
• Build integration frameworks to make it easier to manage our integrations.
• Think through testing frameworks, suites and procedures to ensure each integration is as reliable as the next.
• Design and build the hardest integrations. You should be able to work with product and partnerships to ensure we still deliver a good experience for customers, even when APIs are complicated.
• Debug the hardest bugs. E.g.“why is this random customer sync slow?” or “why does one request in 1000 randomly fail”?

• Demonstrable impact in a previous engineering role and be an excellent communicator.
• Efficiently write maintainable and correct code. 
• Be able to own production incidents, both by communicating internally and orchestrating the engineering response.
• Can orchestrate complicated deployments. E.g. roll out refactors without breaking existing syncs, minimize risk when rolling out.
• Be accountable for correctness, reliability, and velocity across the entire team.
• Be a bar raiser for the team. You enjoy and get energy from mentoring and growing other team members.
• Proficiency with or ability to quickly learn Typescript

Our frontend is built in React and Typescript, and our backend is also built on Typescript with some elements of Go.

Even if your experience does not line up perfectly, we are still excited to have you apply. The best hires do not always check off every box of a job description.

Hightouch’s salary range for this position is $170,000 - $210,000 USD per year.

At Hightouch, we value impact over years of experience when it comes to your role and compensation. Your compensation is based on our assessment of your interview performance, which our recruiting partner and hiring manager will walk you through when you receive an offer.

Salary is just one component of Hightouch’s total compensation package for employees. We also offer a generous equity package for all of our full-time employees, as we believe being an owner of Hightouch is incredibly important. See below for more information on our benefits and perks.