Lead Backend Engineer (BFF)

BFF is a platform for finding friends and building communities online - and bringing those connections into real life. We provide a rich suite of tools that empower users to discover communities, connect meaningfully, and organize IRL gatherings. Simply put: find your people online, get together offline.

Plans is an IRL platform for meeting you people. Sign up and get invited to events. The Plans platform then matches users into small groups optimized for compatibility. Simply put: meet first, match later.

As a member of the BFF/Plans backend team, you’ll play a key role in building and scaling the services that power this experience. You’ll work across TypeScript and Go, developing and maintaining GraphQL/REST APIs to serve millions of users. This is a high-impact role with real product influence - you’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and outreach teams to shape features from concept to launch.

If you’re someone who loves building systems that scale, shaping product direction, and collaborating across disciplines to deliver world-class user experiences, you’ll thrive here.

What you’ll do

Design, build, and maintain horizontally scalable backend systems using TypeScript and Go to support millions of concurrent users.
Develop GraphQL and REST APIs powering our iOS, Android, and web clients.
Lead features through the full lifecycle - from ideation and design to implementation, deployment, and maintenance.
Define and uphold a robust testing strategy across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers.
Collaborate with product, design, and client engineers to translate product requirements into scalable and performant backend solutions.
Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, and process improvements that raise the quality bar for the entire team.

Minimum requirements

7+ years of experience in backend development, with strong proficiency in Go.
Solid understanding of both SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. Redis, DynamoDB).
Deep knowledge of testing best practices and frameworks.
Experience owning features end-to-end, from conception, through development, to production.
Strong grasp of system design principles and a practical approach to scaling products that serve millions of users.
Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
Enjoys working collaboratively in cross-functional teams and thrives in fast-paced, product-driven environments.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

Why Join Us

• Help BFF find product market fit.
• Opportunity to shape the roadmap, engineers work closely with product and design throughout the entire product development process
• Drive architecture decisions, have a wide impact on how BFF is built
• Be part of a culture that values respect, excellence, curiosity, courage and joy.
• Enjoy competitive compensation, equity, and world-class benefits.

Location

• This role is based in Austin or New York, and we ask that you’re within a commutable distance to this office, so that you’re able to come onsite regularly to collaborate across engineering teams.
• Please note: We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time