Engineer, Backend

Notability builds digital learning tools that help students, educators, and professionals organize ideas, deepen understanding, and collaborate. The early-career Backend Engineer will build and maintain central backend systems, APIs, databases, scalability solutions, and tooling while shipping reliable code and collaborating across teams.

What you'll do:

• Own core features across our entire backend system, from direct interactions with client software to database queries to the nitty-gritty of scalability challenges
• Ship stable, readable, well-tested code serving Notability’s whole business
• Communicate clearly, concisely and proactively in writing, conversation and use of AI: crisp problem statements and messages, readable PR descriptions, well-timed questions, honest status
• Drive your work to completion: you find a way around ambiguity, review feedback, and edge cases
• Jump into unfamiliar areas to solve tough problems
• Operate with respect for the ideas, victories, mistakes, and time of your collaborators
• Take in feedback from mentors and peers to continuously self-improve
• Bring ideas and opinions: balance product and tech needs through open collaboration

What they're looking for:

• Evidence you've shipped something real, professionally or on your own
• Clear, concise communication, written and verbal: you make complex things simple for the people around you, and teammates are energized by working with you
• Good judgment, and ownership of outcomes rather than tasks
• Genuine care for the people you work with: you build trust, give and receive feedback well, and treat collaboration as the job rather than an interruption to it
• Solid grasp of web fundamentals (browser, network, async behavior, application state)
• Fluency with AI coding tools
• Demonstrated curiosity: something you built, wrote, or figured out on your own initiative
• Comfort reading and reasoning about TypeScript, and modern web code
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience with infrastructure as code and/or Docker
• Experience with Google Cloud Provider or Amazon Web Services
• Experience building with LLM APIs, agents, or AI-assisted developer workflows

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation that includes bonuses and profit sharing
• Equity Awards in the form of Stock Options
• Comprehensive healthcare fully covered for you and your family including medical, dental, and vision
• Flexible work and vacation schedules
• 401k with matching contributions
• Matching gifts to nonprofits
• Lunch Stipend (When Working from HQ)
• Public transit stipend
• Home workstation reimbursement
• ISP stipend