Backend Software Engineer at Para

At Para, our mission is to build a better gig economy by giving gig workers the tools they need to support their business, helping them earn more and stress less.

We are doing this by building the super app for gig work. Whether a worker is looking for work, actively optimizing how they spend their time, or trying to understand their financial life, Para synthesizes all the data across various apps to become a personal dispatch system! Come help us build a better working future for the 60 million American gig workers.

The driver tools team focuses on two parts of that goal: helping gig workers optimize how they spend their time and understand their financial life. We run a high-throughput system with >10M requests per day to help make this happen for our >50K monthly users.

On Para’s Engineering team, you’ll:

• Consistently ship user-facing features
• Closely collaborate with frontend developers and designers while actively shaping product direction
• Design, build, and maintain software across the stack: CI/CD, observability, monitoring, data models, and client-facing APIs
• Get dedicated time for architecture simplifications / tackling tech debt
• Read, write, and review design docs for product features and architecture changes

You are likely a good fit if

• you have 3+ years of experience in software engineering building, maintaining, and supporting production services
• Have informed or made architectural decisions across the API / data layer like:
  • Serverless functions vs kubernetes vs VMs?
  • Key-value store vs NoSQL vs SQL?
  • HTTP vs gRPC vs thrift?
• have experience building or are in learning to build across the stack

You’ll be a great culture fit if

• You’re motivated to make work easier for the millions of gig workers in the US
• Whether tackling architectural problems or product-market fit, you think the best software solution won’t be designed but iterated to
• You prefer solving two problems reasonably well to solving one problem extremely well

It would be nice (albeit is not necessary – as long as you’re open to learning!) if you have experience with Typescript and Google Cloud Platform.

We offer

• A chance to work with a small team and noticeably move the company from day one
• Unlimited paid time off and paid sick leave
• 1-2 offsites every quarter where we get together in person to eat, hike, and hang out
• Work fully remote from anywhere you want – we only ask you have 4 hours of overlap most days with New York working hours (10 AM - 6 PM)

Para is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in all forms.  Para does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, or any other unlawful factor.