Member of Technical Staff, Backend
MercorAI Talent company
San Francisco, United StatesLead
Felicis Ventures
Benchmark
General Catalyst
DST Global
Menlo Ventures
Robinhood Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Own the architecture of Mercor's shared backend systems.
- •As a Member of Technical Staff of talent experience, you'll own the shared backend architecture that underpins every user journey for talent network at Mercor.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the architecture of Mercor's shared backend systems—core services, data models, APIs, and cross-product infrastructure.
- •Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for backend architecture across the organization.
- •Design systems for scale, reliability, and evolvability, and lead the highest-stakes technical decisions and design reviews.
- •Identify and pay down architectural debt that slows product teams, and lead complex cross-team migrations.
- •Establish backend engineering standards, patterns, and best practices adopted across all product teams.
- •Requirements 8+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including 3+ years operating at a Senior level or above.
- •Deep expertise in distributed systems, service architecture, data modeling, and API design at scale.
- •A track record of owning architecture across multiple teams or an entire organization—and of decisions that aged well.
- •Experience leading large, complex technical migrations in production without stopping the business.
- •Strong opinions, loosely held: you drive alignment through technical judgment and clear writing, not authority.
Required skills
PythonNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETASP.NETNestJSLaravelSymfonyGinEcho
Nice-to-have skills
A/B TestingRoadmappingOKRsDesign ThinkingWireframingPrototypingProgram ManagementProject ManagementCustomer SuccessCustomer Onboarding
Benefits & perks
Generous equity grant, Relocation bonus, Housing bonus, Monthly stipend for meals, Free Equinox membership, Health insurance
Tech stack
PythonNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETASP.NETNestJSLaravelSymfonyGinEchoActixPhoenixMicroservicesPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBCassandraSQLiteOracleSQL ServerNeo4jCockroachDB