The Role

You'll work alongside our Senior Backend Engineer to build and maintain 8club's core services — from the invitation system to event discovery, notifications, and social graph.

Why This Role Matters

As 8club grows to multiple cities and millions of users, one backend engineer can't own everything. You bring velocity, fresh eyes, and the ability to own entire service areas independently.

What You'll Do

• Build new API endpoints and backend services as directed by product and engineering leads

• Maintain and improve existing services — performance, reliability, and clean code

• Write unit and integration tests and contribute to a culture of engineering quality

• Debug production issues quickly and calmly when things go wrong

• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute ideas for technical direction

• Document your code and systems so teammates can build on your work

What We're Looking For

• 2–4 years of backend development experience

• Solid understanding of REST APIs, databases, and server-side logic

• Experience with at least one backend language: Node.js, Python, or similar

• Working knowledge of SQL and ability to write efficient queries

• You take ownership — you don't wait to be told when something is broken

• Good written communication; async-first mindset

Bonus Points

• Experience with consumer-facing products at scale

• Contributions to open source projects

• Some exposure to cloud infrastructure (deployment, environment management)

AI & Tools We Use

• Cursor + GitHub Copilot

• PostgreSQL, Redis

• AWS / GCP