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About the Role

Book of the Month is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to architect creative technical solutions, ensure consistent delivery of roadmapped features, and improve code efficacy, performance, and maintainability. This role involves owning the end-to-end creation of features and tools, collaborating with stakeholders, and writing high-quality code.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end creation of features and tools that reach hundreds of thousands of users.
• Collaborate closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders to find practical, cost-effective solutions that meet business needs in feasible timelines.
• Create detailed, comprehensive technical specifications outlining well thought-out solutions for review by peers & execution by orchestrated agentic workflows.
• Review technical specifications of other developers to ensure success of their projects along with your own, mentoring other engineers to architect for scalability, follow good design patterns, and uncover edge cases.
• Write code and direct code generation to implement approved solutions at high code-quality standards.
• Verify solutions at every step of the development process, considering both happy and unhappy paths, & monitoring success after release.

Requirements

• 6+ years in developing high-quality, production code using Node.js.
• Utilizing TypeScript to ensure integrity of API contracts, store clean data, and future-proof projects for low-lift expansion while avoiding regressions.
• Modeling data in relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and evolving schemas safely against live production data.
• Designing and versioning REST APIs with clear, reliable contracts and consistent backward compatibility.
• Building and maintaining test suites rigorous enough to be trusted as a quality gate for production release.
• Prioritizing efficiency by optimizing SQL, minimizing DB trips, managing in-memory load, and utilizing third-party services such as Redis, Kafka, and SQS.

Skills

• Node.js
• TypeScript
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• REST APIs
• SQL
• Redis
• Kafka
• SQS

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• $125,000 - $180,000

About the Company

• The Engineering team at Book of the Month is responsible for developing and maintaining customer-facing features on our website and mobile applications as well as internal tools that support our fulfillment centers and other departments such as our Editorial, Customer Service, and Finance teams. We work closely with Product, Design, and our fellow engineers to drive projects from inception to launch, working on quick, iterative timelines to ensure quality while maximizing business impact.