About this opportunity
Bandana lists this Senior Backend Engineer opportunity in brooklyn, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Bandana has grown to over a million monthly active users since October 2023, fields jobs for thousands of employers and is investing heavily into building the best job search and career platform for blue collar workers. We’re building out our team to improve our product and lay a solid foundation for Bandana to begin tackling major initiatives like launching AI-driven job applications, mock interviewing, a best-in-class ATS (applicant tracking system), and the most powerful job search experience in the world.
As a senior backend engineer, you’ll be responsible for leading engineering efforts across both our job-seeker and company experiences. You’ll be responsible for driving best practices, shaping technical vision and system architecture, and setting the engineering culture that drives Bandana’s product and mission forward.
Responsibilities
Develop major products like AI-driven job applications, a best-in-class search experience, and career progression tools
Define and drive the long-term architecture and technical direction of backend systems while working with the team to develop best practices along the way.
Build and maintain core infrastructure - CI/CD, observability, compute, and service frameworks - that power all engineering teams.
Work with the rest of the Bandana team to understand user needs and drive product features to address them
You might be a good fit if you…
Have 7+ years of experience in software
Have production experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, Prisma ORM, and Postgres
Have extensive experience developing high-scale, production-ready backend APIs and async event-driven services
Are highly proficient with cloud production environments and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)
Have a history of mentoring engineers and contributing to team growth
Are well versed with infrastructure as code
Communicate clearly, and thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you balance strategy and execution
Strong candidates may also:
Have worked extensively with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Have led multi-team platform initiatives or owned company-wide developer infrastructure
Have contributed to internal or open-source platform tooling (e.g., CI/CD frameworks, service scaffolding)
Have experience working with job-seeking or hiring platforms
Have experience with agentic AI systems, especially if you have developed multiagent/federated systems or implemented robustness monitoring and observability
Interview Process
Intro: 30min chat and overview of Bandana with our recruiting team
Technical screen: 60min technical exercise with a member of our engineering team
Personal experience: 60min interview with the CTO
Onsite Loop: A full day with the Bandana team. You’ll have five 1 hour sessions + lunch on us
System Design
Technical coding
Project Retro
Product and design collaboration
Coffee chat w/ CEO
Pay and Benefits
Base compensation: $190,000 - $235,000 USD
Equity: Dependent on experience and performance🩺
Medical, dental, vision
Unlimited PTO ️
Gym membership at VITAL, Citi Bike membership🚚
Relocation package if needed
Worksite address
brooklyn, NY, 11210, US
Who can apply
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