Skillshare

Backend Engineer

• Shape backend architecture and domain models, including bounded contexts, aggregates, domain events, and service boundaries
• Build and evolve TypeScript/NestJS services using Domain-Driven Design and ports-and-adapters patterns
• Own GraphQL API contracts, Postgres data models, and safe evolution patterns
• Build reliable event-driven systems designed for durability, idempotency, retries, and distributed-system realities
• Use an AI coding harness as a core development tool and improve context, standards, tests, and guardrails
• Raise engineering quality through code reviews, testing, technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and decision records
• Turn ambiguous product needs into well-designed systems in partnership with product and engineering teammates
• Work within the weekly delivery cadence, moving foundational work from Monday goals to Friday demos

Staff Backend Engineer – Platform & Domain Foundations