Sr Backend Engineer

<h4><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Overview</strong></h4><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">UP.Labs is a dynamic venture studio dedicated to building innovative startup companies from the ground up. Our team thrives on solving complex problems, driving technological advancements, and creating impactful digital products. We’re seeking a highly skilled professional to join our growing team and contribute to our mission of launching the next wave of successful startups.</span></div><div><br></div><h4><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Technical Challenge</strong></h4><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You will design, build, and scale backend systems that power new venture products, translating business needs into reliable APIs and services. You will strengthen delivery by partnering on cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices to improve performance, security, and operational excellence.</span></div><div><br></div><h4><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Responsibilities</strong></h4><ul><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs that support product features and integrate with internal and external systems.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Build and optimize data models and queries to ensure consistent performance, reliability, and data integrity.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Contribute to DevOps and cloud infrastructure practices, including deployments, automation, monitoring, and incident response.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Collaborate closely with product and engineering partners to scope work, ship iteratively, and uphold quality through code reviews and testing.</span></li></ul><div><br></div><h4><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Required Skills</strong></h4><ul><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Strong backend engineering experience delivering production services with clear ownership for reliability, maintainability, and performance.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Proficiency building services with Node and Typescript, including modern API design and service-to-service communication.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Proficiency building services and automation with Python.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Experience using PostgreSQL in production, including schema design, query optimization, and troubleshooting.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure and automation with Terraform.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Familiarity running and maintaining workloads on Kubernetes.</span></li></ul><div><br></div><h4><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Preferred Skills</strong></h4><ul><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Experience working with GCP.</span></li><li class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">Experience building services with .NET Core.</span></li></ul><div><br></div><h4><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">UP.Labs Summary</strong></h4><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We build high-growth technology startups that enable faster, cleaner, and safer movement of people and goods. Our vision is to transform the moving world by pairing leading corporations and entrepreneurs with a proven methodology for launching and scaling software and hardware companies.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We work with corporate investors over a multi-year period to launch a portfolio of mobility-focused ventures. Our team is dedicated to the first year of a new venture’s life cycle, from ideation to minimum viable product build (and beyond) to recruiting and hiring the full-time team who will scale the business.</span></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Location:</strong><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Remote</span></div>

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