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Skape Industries LLC lists this Senior Backend Engineer opportunity in workfromhome, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Skape is building the Uber of landscaping — a platform that instantly connects homeowners with top-rated landscaping professionals. We're transforming a $130 billion industry that's still run on phone calls, cash payments, and word-of-mouth referrals.
Founded by a Navy veteran and Columbia CS grad, Skape is a venture-backed startup based in New York. We're live, growing fast, and backed by investors who believe the home services industry is ready for a technology-first approach.
About the Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll design and build the systems that power Skape's real-time marketplace. Every time a homeowner books a service, a landscaper gets matched, a payment is processed, or a route is optimized — your code is making it happen. This is infrastructure that directly impacts thousands of real-world transactions every day.
Our stack is modern and opinionated: TypeScript everywhere, Firebase (Firestore, Cloud Functions, Auth) as our core platform, with strategic use of GCP services for compute-intensive tasks. We're building for scale from day one, but we also value pragmatism — shipping a working solution today beats a perfect one next month.
You'll work directly with the founder (who's a CS grad from Columbia and knows what good engineering looks like) and collaborate with our Flutter engineers to build APIs that are fast, reliable, and a joy to integrate with.
What You’ll Do
Design and implement scalable backend services using Node.js/TypeScript and Firebase Cloud Functions
Build and optimize real-time data pipelines with Firestore, handling complex marketplace matching logic
Develop payment processing infrastructure (Stripe Connect) including escrow, splits, and payouts
Design geospatial systems for provider matching, route optimization, and service area management
Build authentication, authorization, and security systems to protect user data and transactions
Set up monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure platform reliability (99.9%+ uptime)
Write comprehensive API documentation and maintain clean, well-tested codebases
Contribute to architecture decisions and help define our technical roadmap
What We’re Looking For
Required
4+ years of backend engineering experience with Node.js/TypeScript in production environments
Strong experience with Firebase (Firestore, Cloud Functions, Auth) or similar serverless/BaaS platforms
Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL services at scale
Solid understanding of database design, indexing strategies, and query optimization
Experience with payment processing (Stripe, PayPal, or similar) including complex multi-party flows
Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, and data consistency patterns
Nice to Have
Experience building backends for marketplace or on-demand platforms
Familiarity with geospatial queries, PostGIS, or GeoFirestore
Experience with GCP services (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Scheduler)
Open-source contributions or published technical writing
Why Skape?
We're a small team with big ambitions — your work will be visible and impactful from day one
Early-stage equity — you're not employee #10,000, you're helping build the foundation
Remote-first culture — work from anywhere, async by default, results over hours
Direct impact on a $130B industry that hasn't been disrupted yet
Work with a founder who's been in the trenches — Navy veteran, Columbia CS, led engineering at a Fortune 50 company
Ground Floor Equity
Build What Matters
Grow With Us
Unlimited PTO — we trust you to manage your time
$1,000/year conference and learning budget
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Worksite address
workfromhome, NY, 10261, US
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