ChowNow

Backend Engineer, Senior

Remote Backend Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.

PostedJul 2, 2026

Eligible countries3 accepted countries

Seniority signalSenior

Work settingRemote

Accepted candidate locations

CanadaMexicoUSA

Role overview

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Progress through our Ramp Camp (ChowNow’s New Hire Onboarding Experience)
Learn our business model and how it translates to platform architecture and features. We work closely with the product and it influences how we think about the code.
Master our development patterns and collaborative processes. We work together to make work efficient.
Read (and write) internal documentation and proposals, and test your features and systems. We take responsibility for communication, quality, and operations.
Grasp the basics of the platform architecture. Developers share responsibility for our always available APIs.
Squash a bug or two from your squad’s backlog or ship a small feature to production.

Have become an expert on your squad’s area of the platform and made an impact on it. We celebrate our success by measuring our impact, internally and externally.
Build, launch, and support your first big release on our platform. We ship with iterative agility.
Understand how our systems interoperate and be comfortable navigating the stack and infrastructure. We are all generalists, but we specialize in areas too.
Have worked with others on your squad to contribute to the architecture for a new system, optimization, or feature. We communicate and collaborate on our architecture to achieve security, scalability, and maximum learning.
Look for opportunities to help your squad ship faster.
Learn our business model and how it translates to our systems and services.

Build within reliable estimates. We know this takes time, and we strive to be accurate with each other.
Feel comfortable as an expert on your team, teaching others and continuing to learn. We want to learn as much as we teach.
Be an essential part of growing our team by fully participating in the hiring interview process. We share the responsibility to grow our team.
Have suggested or made a process improvement that benefits the productivity of your squad.
Join your squad in end-to-end ownership of a system or component and look for ways to improve and extend it.

You have 5+ years of experience building SaaS products, e-commerce platforms, or similar online systems, with expertise in Python.
You leverage AI development tools to accelerate your work, and exercise good judgment about where they help and where human review is essential
You've designed and versioned public or partner-facing APIs, balancing backward compatibility with the need to evolve them
You have experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and containerized deployments
You embrace experimentation and make decisions based on data and evidence
You've built and maintained event-driven or asynchronous systems (e.g., message queues, background job processing) that handle high transaction volume
You are excited about new technologies, are able to judge the maturity of the latest innovations, and find practical use for them
You've diagnosed and resolved production performance issues — slow queries, memory leaks, or scaling bottlenecks — and put guardrails in place to prevent recurrence
You strive for constant improvement and encourage others to build quality software
You are comfortable with transparency and open lines of communication, both within your team and with external stakeholders
You enjoy being the “glue” between product teams and infrastructure
You are passionate about observability, process improvements, CI/CD, and deployment frequency

Expected Base Salary Range: $169,687 - $220,500 depending on candidate experience and location
Ongoing training and growth opportunities.
A "Best Place to Work" winner multiple times where we focus on creating a great employee experience.
Rock solid medical, dental, and vision plans.
Mental Health Coverage - we offer several programs to support your mental health and wellness goals.
Unlimited Paid Vacation. We expect you to work hard, but still enjoy your personal life
7 weeks of baby bonding time for all new parents (within the first year of birth or adoption), 8 Weeks of Paid Pregnancy Leave.
401(k) Matching
Employer-contributing student loan assistance program or continuing education reimbursement program
Employee Stock Incentive Plan.
Pet insurance for your fur babies
Consistent & fair leadership: we’ll share info, set clear goals, show you respect, and treat everyone fairly.
Enough freedom to spread your wings while still holding you accountable.

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