Staff Backend Engineer, Tango

• You have 10+ years of professional experience in relevant software engineering roles, with a significant focus on backend development and database management
• You are an excellent communicator and take a collaborative approach to problem solving
• You are passionate about leading and growing a team of senior engineers
• You are obsessive about quality and performance measurement. You know what parts of your code require tests (and write those tests)
• You are an expert in managing technical debt; if you choose not to avoid it, you encapsulate it
• You have product sense: you create more than just beautiful code and can play a crucial role in choosing what we build and how we build it
• Above all else, you are a continuous learner and are excited to add new skills to your toolbox. We believe that the best engineers can learn new skills on the job
• You're a master of your craft and eager to share your knowledge to help others grow
• You embrace the growth mindset and refuse to settle for good enough
• You're fun! We're serious about not taking ourselves too seriously around here

Desirable

• As a Staff Backend Engineer at Tango, you'll build a workflow intelligence platform to radically improve team productivity and help master how work gets done.
• You'll be a critical member of a talented and diverse team working on a modern tech stack using a serverless cloud architecture (Appsync, CDK, Lambda, GraphQL, DynamoDB).
• You will have a huge influence on our product roadmap and will work directly with the founders and senior members of the team across engineering, product, and design — who bring their experiences from Uber, Amazon, Slack, Docker, Coinbase, Square, and Harvard Business School
• Lead the end-to-end design and execution of large-scale system architectures, ensuring the successful rollout of complex and innovative features
• Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions with our CTO and other engineering leaders, focusing on scalability and reliability
• Architect and implement scalable backend systems to 10x the growth of Tango's platform
• Elevate the engineering team through close mentorship, implementing best practices, and coaching new hires
• Distill complex initiatives into executable milestones. Forecast unknowns, define success metrics, and drive cross‑team delivery for ambiguous, multi‑quarter projects
• Lead our cloud, infrastructure, and DevOps initiatives to maintain a smooth user and developer experience by creating clear proposals that align engineering, product, and design on architectural changes and new capabilities
• Manage the full lifecycle of your code, from development to production, ensuring it supports high-scale use cases
• Champion performance profiling, automated testing and observability