Lead Backend Engineer (BFF)

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.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and maintain horizontally scalable backend systems using TypeScript and Go to support millions of concurrent users.
• Develop GraphQL and REST APIs powering our iOS, Android, and web clients.
• Lead features through the full lifecycle - from ideation and design to implementation, deployment, and maintenance.
• Define and uphold a robust testing strategy across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers.
• Collaborate with product, design, and client engineers to translate product requirements into scalable and performant backend solutions.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, and process improvements that raise the quality bar for the entire team.

Minimum requirements

• 7+ years of experience in backend development, with strong proficiency in Go .
• Solid understanding of both SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. Redis, DynamoDB).
• Deep knowledge of testing best practices and frameworks.
• Experience owning features end-to-end, from conception, through development, to production.
• Strong grasp of system design principles and a practical approach to scaling products that serve millions of users.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Enjoys working collaboratively in cross-functional teams and thrives in fast-paced, product-driven environments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

Why Join Us

• 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.

Location

• 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