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Backend Engineer at Fern | Y Combinator
www.ycombinator.comWe’re a small team of generalists who enjoy spending time together. We talk to our customers regularly over shared Slack channels or Zoom. We’re looking for teammates who can identify the root cause of a problem, devise a solution, and then implement it. If you’re thinking about founding a company in the future, this is a great place to see an early-stage company grow.
We are power users of whiteboards and work together in person. Our office is in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
What you’ll do
Drive feature parity between languages. For each SDK language that our generator supports, we need to support 15+ features (https://buildwithfern.com/learn/sdks/features/strongly-typed) (and that number will keep growing!)
Expand SDK language selection. Our customers are asking us to support a broader range of SDK programming languages, such as Rust and Swift.
Be a polyglot. Contribute code across repositories in different programming languages. You may write code in TypeScript, Python, and Go within the same week.
Build our team. We’re growing, and you will work directly with the CEO and CTO to bring in talented engineers.
What you’ll bring
4+ years of professional backend or full-stack development
Significant experience working with TypeScript and one other programming language
Experience starting a project from scratch. You might have led a project, built a side project you’re proud of, or been a founder.
An eye for crafting a “good” developer experience
(Nice to have) You've worked in a high-growth SaaS company
What we offer
Engineering challenges that will push you to become a better developer
Kind teammates who work hard
First-hand experience building an early-stage startup
A salary of $168,000 to $192,000 and equity
Living proximity bonus of $18,000 per year if you choose to live near the office
Meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) at the office
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Our tech stack
Next.js + Vercel (Frontend)
Fern (API)
Microservices: Express (Node.js), FastAPI (Python)
Postgres DB + Prisma ORM
AWS (Cloud)
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