Job Overview
Location
USA
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Backend Engineer
Date Posted
May 16, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Design, build, and maintain large-scale distributed SaaS systems that power Feathr’s nonprofit marketing platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance for over 1,300 nonprofit clients.
- • Own end-to-end delivery of backend features: from planning and requirement gathering with product and engineering teams, through design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and eventual retirement of code.
- • Work directly under the Associate Director of Product Engineering to execute backend software development projects aligned with business goals and customer needs.
- • Develop and optimize advanced Elasticsearch APIs and complex MongoDB queries and aggregations, ensuring efficient data ingestion, transformation, and retrieval from diverse event streams.
- • Maintain and enhance AWS infrastructure including EC2 and EKS, managing services critical to platform availability, security, and scalability.
- • Implement and manage self-hosted Drone CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, integration, and deployment workflows across production environments.
- • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions that balance immediate needs with long-term system sustainability.
- • Diagnose and resolve complex production issues with patience and precision, often context-switching during critical outages to prioritize system integrity and customer impact.
- • Ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Feathr’s data and operations through meticulous coding practices and proactive system monitoring.
- • Break down complex technical challenges into manageable tasks, clearly defining deliverables and timelines for team alignment and successful execution.
- • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering colleagues, sharing knowledge and best practices to elevate team capabilities and code quality.
- • Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, facilitating alignment across product, operations, and customer-facing teams.
- • Write clean, maintainable code that solves immediate problems while architecting systems designed to evolve with future demands and scale across growing user bases.
- • Continuously improve technical skills and actively contribute to a culture of learning by documenting insights, leading peer reviews, and advocating for improved engineering practices.
- • Adapt to shifting priorities and evolving product demands with a pragmatic, customer-oriented mindset, always focusing on enabling nonprofits to grow their impact.
- • Participate in the full product development lifecycle, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, code reviews, and post-launch feedback iteration.
- • Work with synchronous and asynchronous environments to support real-time and batch processing needs across marketing, advertising, and web analytics workflows.
- • Contribute to maintaining system observability and operational excellence through logging, metrics, and alerting systems tied to core platform services.
- • Ensure technical solutions directly serve the mission of helping nonprofits build purposeful connections with their communities, prioritizing user impact over technical novelty.
🎯 Requirements
- • 6+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on SaaS products
- • Expertise in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems
- • Professional experience owning the full process of shipping complex software to real users
- • Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis, and Python
- • Expertise in AWS infrastructure (EC2 and EKS) and self-hosted Drone CI/CD
- • Experience with Advanced Elasticsearch APIs and complex MongoDB queries and aggregations
🏖️ Benefits
- • Fully remote work with flexibility for Eastern and Central time zones
- • Health, dental, and vision insurance (99% covered for employees)
- • Paid vacation, sick time, and extended Winter Break
- • Home Office Stipend and Wellness Reimbursement Credit
- • Professional Development Budget
- • Parental Leave
- • Team hangouts and events
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About Feathr Inc.
Feathr is a Customer Data Platform (CDP) that empowers businesses to unify, understand, and activate their customer data. It provides a scalable solution for collecting data from various sources, building unified customer profiles, and segmenting audiences for targeted marketing campaigns. Feathr's platform enables marketers to gain deeper insights into customer behavior, personalize customer experiences across channels, and measure the impact of their marketing efforts. This helps organizations drive better engagement, increase conversions, and optimize their marketing ROI by leveraging a comprehensive view of their customers. The platform is designed for ease of use, allowing teams to activate data without extensive technical expertise.
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