Backend-leaning full-stack engineer to build, maintain, and scale CueBox's Golang/Protobuf/Postgres backend and React/Next.js frontend. Pioneer new product areas, improve performance and payments, contribute to architecture and engineering culture, and support Python data pipelines on GCP.
About CueBox
CueBox is an early-stage startup building all-in-one software for performing arts and cultural organizations. These organizations inspire, connect and delight us; yet, they’ve been underserved by technology providers. Our product saves them time and grows their revenue by streamlining fundraising, ticketing, marketing, education and more, which is why we have such a fast-growing and happy customer base!
We are quickly expanding into more segments across the country, and we’re looking for a talented and driven engineer to help our small team.
LocationCueBox is headquartered in New York City.
About YouWe are looking for backend-leaning full-stack engineers who love building delightful and performant products, are excited to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and want to collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team!
Requirements- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, including prior experience at an early or mid stage startup.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Proven track record of building performant, data-intensive applications using a strongly typed backend language in a complex domain.
- Strong product sense and high customer empathy; genuine desire to build the best possible product for our users.
- Excels at thoughtful API design and database schema/query design.
- Experience with integrating Backend APIs with a TypeScript/React frontend.
- Ability to work independently and successfully own large or ambiguous problem areas.
- Effective verbal and written communication for both technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Experience with online payments, consumer facing flows, or reporting/analytics for large datasets.
- (Nice-to-Have) Experience building AI-enabled features in SaaS products.
This role reports directly to the Head of Engineering. You will:
- Build, maintain and scale our backend systems as we grow.
- Pioneer new features and product areas.
- Meaningfully influence technical direction as the product evolves, including how to further integrate AI into our product.
- Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence through technical design discussion, code review, and documentation.
- Work in our current tech stack: Golang/Protobuf/Postgres backend; React/Next.js/Chakra UI frontend; Python data pipelines; hosted on GCP.
Current and Upcoming Projects include:
- Building brand new AI features such as Dynamic Pricing, MCP Connection and AI Email Composer
- Improving performance, user experience and accessibility of consumer-facing checkout flows.
- Scaling up and rearchitecting our backend systems to handle more user traffic and heavier analytics workloads.
- Continuing to enhance our payments processing functionality, including split payments, Pay Later, and Fraud Prevention.
- Base salary ~$145–185k
- Competitive equity package
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Complimentary one-medical membership
- 401k
Note: We do not offer visa sponsorship at this time.
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