Senior Backend Engineer

We build products for people who want to get better at things: Deepstash (micro-learning, millions of users), Paladin (history, but interactive), Protocol (longevity), Empirio (finance and strategy), Dilemmo (moral dilemmas that mess with your head a little).

We have no less than 10 million+ users across our app portfolio.

We do move fast with no committees, no approval chains, no fifteen-person Slack thread to ship a button, so if you need permission to have an opinion, this isn't it.

What you'd actually do

• Own substantial pieces of the backend end to end, work that touches millions of users
• Contribute to architecture decisions and technical direction
• Mentor the engineers around you, thoughtful reviews and lifting the standard
• Drive technical calls in your domain and resolve the ambiguity where friction or debt is slowing us down
• Use AI as a force multiplier
• Ship fast, but deliberately, testing ideas without piling up hidden debt
• Make calls in your domain and live with them

What we want

• 4+ years building scalable backend systems
• Python/Django/AWS, but we're hiring judgment, not a stack match
• Comfortable with SQL and NoSQL, ideally Postgres, comfortable with ambiguity, comfortable saying "this is wrong" out loud
• A track record shipping backend at scale, and mentoring engineers without being told to
• Cloud infra experience, preferably AWS

The deal

• Office 3+ days a week
• Real ownership on real systems, wherever you land across our stack
• A high-impact senior role in a fast-moving consumer scaleup
• You'll help define how backend engineering works here as we grow, not just execute someone else's plan for it.