Senior Backend Engineer
Remote /
Product, Engineering, and Design (PDE) – Engineering /
Full Time
NEWNESS is the live streaming platform built to celebrate beauty in the most authentic way possible. It’s a place where creators join in with a highly engaged community to talk about what they love–all in real-time.
Our mission is to provide the beauty community a home to create and connect. Every decision we make is focused on nurturing this community, and everything we do is based on four essential values that define who we are: Compassion, Inclusion, Learning, and Joy.
We’re a fun, thoughtful, passionate, and diverse team. Some of our employees are tech veterans coming from Twitch, Google, Snapchat, and the beauty world, lending our team a unique blend of live-streaming, tech, gaming, and beauty expertise. We are a fully distributed (remote) early-stage startup well funded by some of the top VCs and angel investors, including Sequoia Capital, Cowboy Ventures, and Upside Partnership.
NEWNESS is looking for a Backend Engineer to help us accelerate our product development - including new feature delivery, core architecture enhancements, and user growth. Our goal is to create a great experience for our users across a range of browsers and devices: easy to use, a low rate of showstopper bugs, and a code base that supports rapid, iterative development. We are building out new features rapidly, and that means we need a solid base from which to build. You’ll help us ensure we continue building that base while moving our product feature set forward.
What will you do at NEWNESS?
- Take on projects with independence and a mandate to deliver significant impact quickly.
- Help us mature our end-to-end stack to support efficient development and a scalable platform.
- Support the exploration and delivery of technically innovative solutions that deliver outsized user impact.
- Participate in the management of project priorities, deliverables, and target dates.
- Review others’ code and designs, providing constructive feedback and supporting high standards.
- Define excellence, set and follow best practices, and build code that scales with growth. Identify and leverage opportunities to improve processes and outcomes.
- Actively participate in the interviewing process as the Engineering team grows.
About You
- At least 6+ years of development experience.
- Preferably at least 3+ years in a startup environment.
- A solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and scalable, decomposed design.
- Proven success building new systems from the ground up.
- Experience deploying, operating, and supporting what you and others build.
- Success in improving scalability and reliability as the business drives higher user engagement volumes.
- Have experience building, testing, and shipping complex backend features leveraged by mobile web, iOS, and desktop clients.
- Experienced with AWS and success selecting and integrating SaaS platforms.
- Have well-supported opinions about architecture and design, especially as it relates to the backend
- Experience with Ruby on Rails.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to present effectively to a non-technical audience.
- Excited about building and supporting the growth of high empathy and diverse online communities.
- Comfortable and excited about putting on different hats of all shapes and sizes -- we're a small startup!
Nice to Haves
- Familiarity with SQL
- Experience with serverless architecture.
- Familiarity with video and audio live streaming.
- Experience with automated Q/A testing.
- Experience, or an active interest, in distributed systems.
At NEWNESS, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative culture throughout every step of an employee's journey. From day one of our interview process to team meetings, we consistently cultivate an inclusive environment.
Our success in making companies great at hiring depends on our ability to create a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment. To that end, we’re committed to attracting, developing, retaining and promoting a diverse workforce, and infusing DE&I throughout all of our internal practices. By ensuring that every person is able to bring a diversity of talents to our work, we’re increasingly capable of living out our mission and providing real value to our community. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. Come grow with us at Newness.
