Perchwell - Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Remote - USA$200k - $245k+ Equity5mo ago

Remote Staff NA Cloud Computing Software Software Engineer Staff Engineer Kubernetes AWS GCP Kafka Rust

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development experience, primarily focused on backend services, with comfort working on frontend technologies. • Expertise in distributed systems and designing scalable services on Kubernetes. • Strong proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP) and message passing architectures (Kafka, Red Panda, gRPC/protobufs). • Advanced backend service and API development skills using modern programming languages (Python, Golang, Rust, Ruby). • Deep understanding of software engineering fundamentals: modularity, scalability, and separation of concerns. • Experience with frontend technologies, including Typescript, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS, and React. • Proven ability to design and implement solutions using various database types (relational, columnar, document, vector). • Skilled at integrating observability and performance monitoring into all aspects of system design. • Ability to work across service, database, and infrastructure boundaries to address design and performance challenges.

Benefits

• To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. Our ranges are based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including skills, job-related knowledge and depth of work experience. • The compensation for this position is $200K-$245K base salary + equity + benefits • Flexible PTO, plus 10 paid company holidays • 401K with a company match • Medical, dental, and vision plans • HSA and FSA options • Company-wide onsite or offsite each year • Beautiful office in Soho, Manhattan with a stocked kitchen, catered breakfast and lunch once per week, happy hours and meet-ups