Backend Engineer, Haddock

• Product mindset – you empathize with users (e.g., restaurants), prioritize impactful work, and communicate clearly across teams
• Backend focus – strong skills in server‑side development (TypeScript/Node, Python, Go, etc.) and database modeling
• Infrastructure expertise – experience managing services in cloud environments (GCP or AWS or Azure, Docker, CI/CD, monitoring/logging)
• Integration know‑how – comfortable with REST APIs, webhooks, and async patterns (message queues, retries)
• Ownership mentality – proactive, resourceful, and comfortable leading technical decisions
• Experience – 2–5+ years building and operating backend systems at scale
• Languages – fluency in Spanish, and comfortable with English (projects and incidents are written in English, and we work with some international clients)

Desirable

• We're looking for a backend engineer who wants to own core integrations, shape our infrastructure, and push the boundaries of reliability and scalability
• This isn’t just another backend role — it’s your chance to lead a mission-critical area of our platform from day one
• You’ll be the technical lead for our POS integrations — architecting, scaling, and operating the backend systems that power haddock’s growth. Your work will directly impact how restaurants connect their systems and manage their business
• Design and implement new integrations with external POS providers and services
• Extend and maintain existing connectors with an eye toward robustness and reuse
• Drive infrastructure improvements for scalability, observability, and security
• Collaborate with the rest of the team on architecture and deployment
• Set standards for integration quality, reliability, and performance
• Ownership from day one – lead this mission-critical area as we expand
• Fast‑growing impact – integrations are core to scaling haddock into new markets
• Cross‑functional influence – work with product, customer success, and engineering to shape flow and experience
• Career growth – shape team practices, mentorship opportunities, and future technical strategy

• We move fast (1 week!) while keeping it friendly and respectful:
• Intro call (~30 min) with a co-founder
• Technical interviews (~2 hr) — integration and infra design deep dive + live backend/infrastructure task