Staff Backend Engineer

• We’re growing, and looking for Staff Software Engineers to ship critical features and make key drive key infrastructure changes
• You’ll report directly to our Head of Engineering
• As a Staff Engineer at Vendelux, you will help shape the technical strategy for our products and systems
• Be the technical owner for features end-to-end, including the systems that power our data platforms and best-in-class web application
• Ship high quality, secure, and well-tested software that scales as highly distributed systems, using incremental deliveries based on data driven prioritization and decisions
• Solve interesting and challenging technical problems, coordinating technical roadmap deliveries across our product team and front end engineers
• Collaborate with our operations and revenue teams, as well as our users to respond, react, and plan feature delivery based on user feedback and analytics
• Identify opportunities to work across our stack, and areas of the business, to help meet the needs of a quickly scaling business and product
• Work closely with our leadership team to define our product roadmap and technical strategy, and continuously improve our development process and engineering practices
• Be a technical leader and valued contributor in an autonomous, cross-functional agile team
• Mentor a growing team of engineers through pair programming and code reviews, on performant, scalable engineering principles, with a focus on iterative delivery
• Tech Stack:
• Frontend: Typescript, React, MUI/Shadcn, Node.js
• Backend: Python, Django, Typescript, Node.js, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, GCP
• Data: Python, Dagster, Snowflake
• Other tools: Linear, GitHub, Datadog, Cursor / Claude Code

Benefits

• Regular Retreats: We regularly meet up in beautiful locations around the world to discuss all things Vendelux
• Recharge Weeks: The company shuts downs two times a year so everyone can recharge without work piling up

• Judgment to take on technical debt and risk where appropriate
• Track record of shaping and shipping valuable features
• Comfort with modern AI tools to accelerate development
• The humor and humility to maintain perspective during fast-paced work
• 10+ years of experience building complex applications using a modern language, like Python and/or Typescript
• Track record of driving high-leverage improvements to infrastructure and process
• Nice-to-have: DevOps or platform/infrastructure experience (or deep interest)
• Nice-to-have: Experience with AI prototyping tools like v0, Lovable, Replit, etc
• Nice-to-have: Previous startup experience
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Not all candidates will check all of the requirements listed above and that’s ok! We are open to great people from non-traditional backgrounds