Wand
Senior Backend Engineer
Remote - USA (East Coast) · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 64 days ago
TypeScriptPHPLaravelCode ReviewNoSQLPostgreSQLMySQLRedisVector DatabasesGCPTerraformAnsibleDatadogRESTgRPCWebSocketsLLMsAccessibilityCommunication
About the role
- This is a senior individual contributor role.
- You're self-managing, opinionated, and willing to drop into TypeScript in the Electron app or have a view on a UX workflow when that's what the work needs.
Responsibilities
- Own meaningful parts of the backend
- Scope, design, ship, and stabilize the services the rest of the product depends on. Own the fix when something misbehaves at 2am.
- Drive the backend roadmap
- Take ownership of what we work on, what we cut, and what we sequence. The Head of Engineering will partner closely early on
- the bar is that this person eventually drives the roadmap on their own.
- The chance to build core infrastructure for an audience of 40M+ players who will actually feel the difference.
- A team of people who genuinely love games, move incredibly fast, and care deeply about what they build.
Requirements
- You can talk about what you built, who used it, and what shipped because of it.
- Experience inside an Electron app at depth - IPC, packaging, native modules, the weird stuff.
Skills
- Wand makes gaming magical.
- The gaming industry is undergoing a massive transition.
Compensation
- Competitive compensation and equity package.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity package.
- Treat performance, observability, and operational health as part of "done." Dashboards and alerts ship with the feature.
Company info
- Treat infrastructure as code as part of the job. Terraform and Ansible aren't someone else's problem
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
This listing is sourced directly from Wand's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.