Senior Software Engineer (West Coast)
Fictiv is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team, focusing on developing and scaling the systems that power our global manufacturing ecosystem. This role offers the opportunity to work on real-world problems impacting global supply chains, collaborating with teams building products used by top hardware innovators.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and develop highly available, scalable backend services in AWS, build and maintain event-driven, asynchronous systems using Node.js, and create robust APIs (REST/GraphQL) powering customer-facing and internal tools. You will partner closely with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to ship impactful features, contribute to technical design discussions, and drive best practices across the team. Additionally, you will debug production issues and improve system reliability, continuously improving code quality through testing, observability, and documentation.
The ideal candidate has 5+ years of backend engineering experience, strong skills in Node.js and JavaScript/TypeScript, and experience building systems on AWS (SQS, Lambda, EC2, RDS, etc.). A solid understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures, experience designing and maintaining REST or GraphQL APIs, and familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases are also required. A commitment to writing unit and integration tests, knowledge of system design, caching, and security best practices (OWASP Top 10), and U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency (green card holder) are necessary.
The salary range for this position is $160,000 – $200,000 per year, depending on experience. Fictiv offers a flexible work environment (West Coast friendly) and minimal travel (0–10%).
Fictiv is transforming how the next rockets, self-driving cars, and life-saving robots are designed, developed, and delivered to customers around the world. We are a team of self-starters that enjoy a good challenge, always looking for ways to support one another and help our customers succeed. We aim to constantly improve and learn from each other, caring personally and striving to work with integrity.