Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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Responsibilities

• ▹Build APIs that other engineers use to solve customer problems in the product
• ▹Ensure systems are efficient, scalable, and reliable
• ▹Keep Common Room's core internal capabilities, infrastructure, and systems ahead of customer and team needs
• ▹Participate in important company-building initiatives at a fast-growing startup
• ▹Collaborate effectively with other experienced engineers, including application/front-end engineers

Requirements

• ▹6+ years of experience
• ▹Operate independently while proactively seeking help when needed
• ▹Own large projects primarily on the backend domain
• ▹Good judgement on tradeoffs and tools, preferring supported, stable technologies over trendy ones
• ▹Use customer problems as input for simple, elegant system design
• ▹Consider observability, SLA, and scalability while avoiding premature optimization
• ▹Comfortable with AWS, Postgres, and Node.js
• ▹Build sustainably and manage your own time and priorities

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive base compensation with meaningful equity ownership
• ▹Health insurance including medical, dental, and vision, HSA and FSA
• ▹100% of employee premium and 50% of dependent premium covered
• ▹Unlimited Paid Time Off
• ▹Paid company holidays
• ▹Work-from-home policy including a laptop and home office support
• ▹Monthly remote stipend
• ▹401(k) self contribution
• ▹Paid family leave

About the company

Common Room is the AI GTM Platform that empowers teams with AI agents built on complete buyer intelligence, unifying every signal across the buyer journey into one continuously-updated, person-level view. The company has raised over $50 million from top-tier investors including Greylock, Index, and Madrona, and is backed by 25+ operators from companies like Figma, Stripe, Airtable, Slack, Notion, and Loom.