Backend Engineer
Discz
Software Engineering  
New York, NY, USA
USD 100k-200k / year + Equity
Posted on May 16, 2025
What you’ll do
- Work with founders, design and iOS engineers to bring product ideas to life
 - Design, build, and maintain scalable APIs and backend services that power our core platform
 - Maintain and optimize infrastructure to scale as our user base grows
 - Participate in technical architecture discussions, and set engineering excellence standards that will shape the engineering org for years to come
 - Engage in our app / slack to gather feedback, resolve bugs and maintain a world class experience for our users
 
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience building backend systems at scale
 - Technical excellence: can confidently architect a solution, work through complex technical challenges and collaborate with other teammates to deliver something from zero to production
 - Product sense: Ability to reason through trade-offs between eng complexity, product scope, and quality to build quickly but maintain world class feel
 - Versatility: Strong problem-solving skills and ability to adapt to different technical situations that arise by learning new skills, solving complex problems, taking on different hats etc.
 - Communication: Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally
 - Passion: You thrive in fast paced environments, and love taking ownership to drive projects from ideation, to coding and then production at a lightning pace
 
Ideal Candidate
- Proficiency in Python (experience with Django preferred)
 - Experience with AWS specifically ECS, CDK, RDS, S3
 - Deep understanding of infrastructure concepts including queuing systems, database architecture, caching, edge networks, container orchestration, etc.
 - Strong understanding of CI/CD
 - Cares about improving developer experience
 - Understanding of social media platforms and content recommendation systems
 - Passion for engineering that extends past your 9-5 job
 
Our Stack
- Backend: Python/Django
 - Database: PostgreSQL
 - Cache & Queue: Redis, Celery
 - Infrastructure: AWS
 - API: GraphQL, REST
 
What We Offer
- $100-200K annual salary + equity
 - $200/month fitness stipend
 - $250/quarter concert stipend
 - Hybrid work environment: 4 days in our Soho NYC office, 1 day remote per week
 - Catered office lunches on Tuesdays
 - Opportunity to shape a platform that will reach millions of users
 - Professional growth and development opportunities
 - Work directly with founders