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$165,000–$180,000/yr
US

  • Shape the technical direction of systems that meet advertising, marketing, and analytics needs of a diverse customer base.
  • Own one or more product areas, identifying technical problems and opportunities, and building the most challenging parts yourself.
  • Work across the full stack from Python services on the backend to React and TypeScript interfaces on the frontend.

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$170,000–$200,000/yr
Canada Unlimited PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Design and build distributed backend systems in Python, focusing on reliability and scale.
  • Contribute to frontend features using React and TypeScript to deliver complete product experiences.
  • Collaborate with data scientists and product managers to turn ambiguous product needs into production-ready solutions.

Northbeam builds a marketing intelligence platform for eCommerce brands, offering unified data views through attribution modeling and dashboards. The company is rapidly growing with strong product-market fit and a remote-friendly culture.

$175,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Provide technical leadership for platform infrastructure and backend architecture as the company scales its marketplace.
  • Drive platform strategy, improve system reliability and developer productivity across engineering teams.
  • Build secure, scalable solutions that support long-term growth while mentoring engineers and establishing technical standards.

PadSplit operates a marketplace that helps people find affordable housing by renting rooms in shared homes. Founded with a mission to solve housing affordability, the company has grown to a significant size and fosters a collaborative, mission-driven culture focused on impact and inclusivity.

US

  • Own search, discovery, and recommendations end to end, from underlying data and indices to relevance, ranking, and user-facing experience.
  • Build and improve backend services and APIs powering matching across a knowledge graph with focus on precision, recall, and performance.
  • Ship user-facing search and discovery features across the stack, partnering closely with product and design.

Office Hours is an on-demand expert network connecting leading organizations with trusted experts across various knowledge domains for advisory work, projects, and AI model training. We are a hyper-growth, profitable company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Brooklyn and Bangalore, backed by top marketplace investors and operators.

$127,500–$165,000/yr
Canada

  • Design, build, and improve backend and platform systems driving Midnite's core product.
  • Tackle complex platform problems across scalability, reliability, service isolation, and regional readiness.
  • Collaborate across time zones with a high-ownership engineering culture, driving independent delivery.

Midnite is a next-generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players. With over 400,000 players, we are a high-performance team operating at pace with high ownership and constant iteration.

Canada

  • Define technical strategy for your team on a year-long scale, tying it to critical business projects.
  • Collaborate across teams in product development, ensuring technical sustainability and managing trade-offs.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership through code review standards, design advocacy, and mentorship.

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers buy now, pay later services without hidden fees. They are a remote-first company with a global engineering team, focused on honest and friendly credit.

US

  • Own the end-to-end pipeline that powers pricing recommendations, from data ingestion through ML models to customer-facing outputs.
  • Rebuild data reconciliation from property management systems, tackling hard data and orchestration challenges.
  • Build observability, alerts, and infrastructure as code across Python, Terraform, and Ruby.

We're a profitable, growth-stage company building AI and data SaaS products for the PropTech space, including ApartmentIQ and MavenAI. We're a fully remote team of 100+ with a strict no a**holes policy and a high-performance culture.

$149,670–$149,670/yr
Global 5w PTO

  • Lead technical delivery for new product categories with a hands-on approach.
  • Design systems for ambiguous, undefined categories and integrate with complex internal services.
  • Partner with commercial stakeholders and mentor engineers to raise technical standards.

Tem is rebuilding the energy transaction infrastructure to make it transparent and fair. They are a Series B company with $75M funding, serving thousands of customers and billions in transaction value.

Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build the backend services that power Operator, a system that helps engineering teams search company knowledge and surface design decisions.
  • Develop scalable retrieval pipelines, integrate structured and unstructured engineering data, and improve search quality and knowledge retrieval performance.
  • Collaborate with AI, Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver customer-facing capabilities and mentor teammates through code reviews and technical leadership.

CoLab is an AI platform that helps mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market faster by driving stronger engineering decisions. It is a rapidly scaling company recognized on Deloitte's Fast 50 and Fast 500, and named a Canadian company to watch by The Globe and Mail and Financial Post.

India

  • Own the full lifecycle of platform features from problem definition to deprecation planning.
  • Lead Search and Knowledge Graph platform evolution to reduce redundancy and optimize payload size.
  • Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across the team.

H1 provides a platform that optimally informs every doctor interaction globally, promoting health equity and trust in healthcare systems. The company harnesses data and AI to unlock medical insights and improve patient outcomes.

$176,000–$253,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Partner with product and clinical teams to turn vision into shipped product, owning architecture end to end for new member- and care team-facing experiences.
  • Apply broad technical judgment across languages and systems, using modern engineering and AI-assisted tools to quickly evaluate tradeoffs and guide delivery.
  • Set the quality bar with clean, well-tested, scalable code and mentor other engineers to remove ambiguity and ship fast.

Omada Health is reverse engineering the way healthcare is delivered in America, focusing on chronic conditions between doctor visits. They have served over two million members across 2000+ employers and health plans and are a certified Great Place to Work.

India

  • Build and optimize backend services and data pipelines for a next-gen advertising platform.
  • Take ownership of code from design to production, ensuring reliability and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with engineers, PMs, and stakeholders to turn requirements into reliable features.

Spreetail propels brands to increase their ecommerce market share globally while improving operational costs. It is one of the fastest-growing ecommerce companies with a culture of ownership and collaboration.

Canada

  • Design, develop, and launch backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to articulate technical constraints and make data-driven decisions.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership through code reviews, tech talks, and mentoring team members.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, offering flexible buy now, pay later solutions without hidden fees. The Engineering team builds scalable, performant systems to power Affirm's mission, with a focus on reliability and innovation.

Europe

  • Set and evolve the technical strategy for Revenue Intelligence, translating product goals into coherent architecture and executable plans.
  • Lead design and delivery of complex capabilities across web applications, APIs, event-driven services, data pipelines, and analytical storage.
  • Identify and resolve systemic risks in scalability, reliability, security, and operability before they become recurring problems.

Cloudbeds provides an intelligently designed platform that powers hospitality properties across 150 countries, processing billions in bookings annually. With over 650 employees across 40+ countries, the company fosters a remote-first, inclusive culture and has been recognized as the World's Best Hotel PMS Solutions Provider.

Global 26w maternity 18w paternity

  • Architect and build backend services that power LLM-based agents and clinical automations.
  • Design robust APIs, data models, and event-driven systems for reliability and scale.
  • Automate quality with tests, alerts, and runbooks to earn clinician trust.

Heidi is building the future of healthcare by giving every clinician an AI Care Partner that handles administrative chaos. In 18 months, their clinical AI has supported over 2.5 million patient sessions weekly across 190+ countries, and they operate with a mission-driven culture focused on doubling healthcare capacity.

Europe

  • Build the data control plane for governance and discovery.
  • Create paved roads for data products with SDKs and CI/CD.
  • Ensure every data product is observable by default.

Kargo creates powerful moments of connection between brands and consumers to build businesses. With 600+ employees, the company uses a creative science approach to deliver innovative ad experiences across CTV, eCommerce, social, and mobile.

Global

  • Design, build, and operate feed services that serve market data across multiple markets with low latency and high reliability.
  • Keep the feed available and correct when things break, owning SLOs and overall health of your services.
  • Identify technical debt and reliability risks, improve systems, and support engineers through code reviews.

Thndr is on a mission to make investing simple and accessible for everyone across the Middle East and North Africa. Since launching in 2019 and going through Y Combinator, Thndr has grown into Egypt's number one investing app with millions of users, backed by Tiger Global, Prosus Ventures, and others.

US Canada

  • Design and build backend services that power core business workflows.
  • Own projects end-to-end from early design through production and iteration.
  • Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, scalability, and maintainability.

Short Story is an award-winning, technology-powered retailer dedicated to petite women 5'4" and under. It is a fast-growing startup backed by leading investors, with a culture that thrives on data insights, exceptional commitment to fit, and urgency.

$156,000–$205,000/yr
US

  • Lead the design and implementation of complex software systems and integrations.
  • Develop scalable, maintainable, and secure software solutions with a focus on performance.
  • Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews and design discussions.

EasyPost is a YC unicorn that makes shipping simple for businesses of all sizes. The team is rapidly growing and values elegant architecture, fast decisions, and continuous improvement.

Spain

  • Design and launch backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to define technical plans and articulate constraints.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership through code reviews, design standards, and tech talks.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, offering consumers the ability to buy now and pay later without hidden fees. The company is a global fintech with a remote-first culture, known for its agile and fast-paced environment, serving over 20 million users.

$114,300–$139,700/yr
UK

  • Design, develop, test, monitor and maintain backend services for our systems.
  • Build clean, efficient, and well-documented APIs for web and mobile applications.
  • Write high-quality, maintainable code with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.

Midnite is a next-generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players. With over 400,000 players and a high-performance team, we operate at pace with high ownership and constant iteration.