Senior Backend Engineer, Growth

at  Linktree

The Role
We are looking for talented and experienced backend/fullstack engineers with a specialization in growth to play a key role in driving the expansion and optimization of our product. The ideal candidate will be a strong developer with a strong understanding of leveraging new technologies and data to inform decision-making and drive growth for the Linktree product.

What You’ll Own

• Lead growth engineering efforts by conceptualizing, designing, and implementing technology solutions aimed at accelerating the growth of our product.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, prioritize initiatives, and deliver impactful solutions that contribute to the overall growth strategy.
• Take ownership of the full development lifecycle, from initial design and implementation of performant backend to testing, deployment, and maintenance of infrastructure solutions.

Who We’re Looking For

• Someone with experience leading product teams in early product development and who both loves designing durable, extensible systems while also feeling comfortable building a first version quickly to validate then iterate.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent and 4+ years of Software Engineering experience
• Experience building modern backend services that power web and mobile front ends, and manage the cloud infrastructure that powers your services.
• Experience with our core service stack (Typescript, Node.js and PostgreSQL, GraphQL). A plus is experience with the rest of our stack: AWS (S3, EventBridge, SQS, Lambdas, ECS, CDK), PHP, Snowflake for our data warehouse.
• Experience building e-commerce platforms is a plus.
• Experience working with industry-wide payment facilitator services (Stripe, Paypal) and building systems for payment tracking is a plus.

Linktree is committed to providing a competitive compensation package. Our cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $175,000 - $209,000 in the San Francisco Bay or Los Angeles area. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate expertise, the scope of role and level, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
P.S. If you don’t tick every box in this ad, please don’t rule yourself out. We take pride in inclusion and hiring incredible human beings with great potential over ticking boxes – so if this role resonates with you, hit that apply button!

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