Palette Labs, Inc. · 1 month ago
Senior Backend Engineer, Typescript
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expPalette Labs is building a decentralized protocol for commerce, focusing on food delivery and restaurant access. The Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for scaling the platform, ensuring the reliability of services, and leading technical execution for critical integrations with partners.
Information Technology & Services
Responsibilities
Design and implement highly scalable, reliable, and transactionally consistent services using TypeScript across our core APIs and data models
Lead the architecture and development of robust 3rd-party integrations (e.g., Toast, Olo, Stripe), focusing on reliability, retries, and financial reconciliation
Own Production Operations and System Reliability (SLOs, observability, incident response, and on-call rotation) to maintain a high-quality platform for our partners
Define database management best practices, including schema design, indexing, safe migrations, and query tuning to ensure optimal data layer performance
Drive the implementation of core marketplace and logistics domain features, such as dispatch algorithms, real-time tracking, pricing, and fraud/risk detection
Mentor and guide other engineers, raising the bar for code quality, testing practices, and architectural standards across the entire development team
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with significant experience designing and shipping production systems
Deep professional expertise in TypeScript or a modern strongly-typed language (e.g., Go, Java, C#) with a willingness to write production code in TypeScript
Proven experience with API and Data Modeling for complex, high-throughput applications, ideally within a logistics, marketplace, or fintech context
Strong knowledge of Production Operations and Reliability, including experience with observability tools, incident management, and setting/meeting SLOs
Expertise in Database management, including schema design, query tuning, and safe, consistent migrations
Experience implementing core architectural principles such as transactional consistency, idempotency, and concurrency control
Preferred
Prior experience building robust, fault-tolerant 3rd-party integrations (Payments, POS, or other major enterprise APIs)
Experience with Event-driven systems (queues, pub/sub, CDC, WebSockets/SSE)
Familiarity with the Marketplace/Logistics Domain (dispatching, routing, ETA calculation)
Experience with modern PaaS tools (AWS/GCP, Infrastructure as Code, containers)
Interest or experience in decentralized technology (EVM standards, verifiable data models)
Benefits
Health & Wellness: 100% employer‑covered premium options for Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance for employees.
Time Off: Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
Company
Palette Labs, Inc.
Palette Labs, Inc. is a multidisciplinary team of engineers, economists and researchers working to make the economy work better for people.
2-10 employeesFunding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Michael Perhats
CEO
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