Overview
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Job Details
I have attached below a detailed job description for your review.
If you have the required experience and interest, please email me a current resume, along with your responses to the following questions:
*** How much experience in years do you have as a Backend Engineer?
*** How much experience in years do you have with Node.js?
*** How much experience in years do you have with TypeScript?
*** How much experience in years do you have with Go?
*** How much experience in years do you have with Temporal?
*** How much experience in years do you have with Redis?
*** How much experience in years do you have with Cloud environments?
*** What is your hottest tech take or the most against the grain pdfroduct decision you've made?
*** How actively are you looking for a new position?
*** Do you hold a 4 year college degree?
*** What is your target base salary?
*** Where do you currently live (city, state)?
*** Are you able to work in New York, NY?
*** What is your availability to start a new role?
Thank you!
Steven Edelman
Managing Partner
Pivotal Solutions, Inc.
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Senior Backend Engineer
We're looking for someone with 6+ years of experience in backend engineering who has a deep understanding of distributed systems and architectural decision-making. You should be comfortable working with complex, high-scale backend architectures, particularly those involving durable execution systems like Temporal, and have a track record of owning critical systems. Bonus points if you have experience with Go or LLM integrations.
What you'll do:
Architect, build, and operate backend services that are fast, fault-tolerant, and easy to evolve.
Define service boundaries, data models, and contracts that keep teams moving independently.
Establish performance baselines and SLOs; design for durability and graceful degradation.
Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers across code quality, testing, and ops.
Own critical systems: queue orchestration (Temporal), caching (Redis), and infra automation.