Senior Backend Engineer, Member Experience
Remote$180k - $240kFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Senior Backend Engineer role focused on building and operating Raya's backend services, with emphasis on scalable architecture, collaboration across teams, and delivering high-impact product features. Remote, full-time.
Responsibilities
- Product Ownership: Collaborate, build, and lead key components of our Raya backend services
- Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with cross-functional teams, ranging from UX designers to data scientists, ensuring our solutions are comprehensive and user focused
- Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest in Raya's tech ecosystem, ensuring our solutions are scalable, maintainable, and innovative
- User-Centric Development: Prioritize and advocate for top-tier user experiences, utilizing feedback loops and data-driven methodologies to define and refine product features
- Operational Excellence: Navigate the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and Raya's best practices are integrated into all development phases
Qualifications
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in modern software development environments, with a track record of delivering scalable and maintainable systems
- Demonstrated expertise in system design, architecture, and mastery in Node.js and Typescript
- Proven experience in building and scaling backend systems in production at a startup or fast-moving environment
- Production Apple StoreKit Payments/Subscriptions experience
- Production Stripe Payments/Subscriptions experience for a B2C product
- Enthusiasm around new AI tools and frameworks - and a willingness to quickly adopt emerging best practices
Skills
Required:Node.jsTypescript
Benefits
- comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- $50 a day food delivery budget
- equity based employment
- great culture
- learning opportunities
- unlimited vacation
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- $1,000 a year to travel somewhere in the world
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Raya
Raya is a private, membership based community for people all over the world to connect and collaborate.
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