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$177,900 – $203,700
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What this role is
Front seeks an experienced backend engineer to lead technical strategy and ownership of high-volume email delivery infrastructure that processes tens of millions of messages daily. This role combines system architecture and hands-on development for a critical platform serving thousands of B2B companies.
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What they ask for
Required
- 5+ years professional software engineering experience
- Experience building and operating distributed backend systems at scale
- Ownership of complex systems and architectural decision-making
- Collaborative approach to engineering and cross-team work
- On-call responsibilities and strong sense of system reliability ownership
- Product mindset with focus on scalability and extensibility
- Fluency in a dynamic language like JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Ruby
- Track record of shipping complex projects with high ambiguity
- Experience with asynchronous work queues, high-volume storage, or high-throughput systems
- Pragmatic engineering judgment balancing trade-offs
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, collaborative, high-growth environment
Nice to have
- Prior B2B SaaS or customer communications company experience
- High-volume email sending experience (millions of messages daily)
- DNS infrastructure experience
- AWS deployment and operations experience
- Deep email protocol and RFC knowledge
- Anti-spam infrastructure experience
- Integration work with SendGrid, Mailgun, Mandrill, or SparkPost
- Gmail or Office 365 API experience
- Kafka experience