Senior/Staff Backend Engineer
Blackbird
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Overview
Join Blackbird as a Senior Backend Engineer to design and maintain core APIs for a loyalty and payments platform revolutionizing the restaurant industry. Competitive salary and benefits included. About Blackbird Blackbird Labs is a loyalty and payments platform establishing meaningful connections between the world’s best restaurants and their customers. Served up in 2022 by Ben Leventhal, co-founder of Eater and Resy, Blackbird offers a fully customizable loyalty programming platform for restaurants and a consumer app designed to make every guest feel like a bonafide VIP no matter where they dine. Backed by Union Square Ventures, a16z, Amex Ventures, Variant Fund, and other forward-thinking investors, Blackbird is out to revolutionize the restaurant industry. About Our Team At Blackbird, our values guide everything we do and our talent principles define the key traits we seek in our employees. We have passion for our product – committed to our mission and instinctively think like and go the extra mile for our customers. We are elite performers – striving for excellence, going above and beyond to achieve exceptional results, and learning quickly with horsepower, drive, and grit. We make others better – taking initiative to elevate others, giving and receiving feedback, and championing a culture of growth. We hold one another accountable to living out our talent principles as we march together to achieving our mission.
What you'll do
- •Design, build, and maintain core backend APIs
- •Collaborate with product, design, and engineering peers to deliver features aligned with business goals
- •Contribute to system architecture and implement scalable, robust solutions
- •Uphold and promote backend best practices, with a focus on code quality, testing, and performance
- •Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and foster a collaborative, growth-oriented team culture
- •Participate in product and design discussions, offering backend perspectives on implementation and feasibility
Conditions
- •Depending on your work location and experience the target annual salary for this position can range from: $180,000-$220,000 USD.
- •Full time offers from Blackbird may also include stock options, benefits (including medical, dental, vision, flexible time off, 401(k)), and some not-so-standard, extra-fun perks — subject to applicable taxes and based on eligibility.