Senior Backend Engineer/Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

At Perfect Venue we are on a mission to bring communities together by making it effortless to plan events. We combine intuitive software with AI agents that make it easy for venues to increase sales, save hours every week, and bring their communities together. We are backed by top investors and operators like the Hustle Fund, Defy.vc, Amity Ventures and are used by thousands of venues nationwide from Michelin star restaurants to your favorite bar.

🏢 About Perfect Venue

We're looking for a senior backend engineer who enjoys building useful product features and operating the systems behind them. You'll work on our application, APIs, data models, integrations, and background jobs, while sharing responsibility for our cloud infrastructure with our engineering lead.

🎯 The Role

Application development is the primary focus of this role. You'll also bring practical experience keeping production services reliable, reviewing infrastructure changes, and investigating issues across application and cloud boundaries.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Deliver customer-facing features from product discussion through release and iteration.
• Own backend features from technical design through implementation, testing, release, and maintenance.
• Build reliable APIs, integrations, and background processing for customer workflows.
• Improve database queries, application performance, and failure handling as the product grows.
• Work with our engineering lead to maintain AWS infrastructure and review Terraform changes.
• Investigate production incidents, improve monitoring and recovery procedures, and document what the team needs to operate services confidently.
• Collaborate with product and frontend engineers on practical solutions, and support teammates through code reviews and mentoring.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experience independently delivering and maintaining backend features in a production web application.
• Strong proficiency in a backend language and web framework, such as Rails, Django, Laravel, Node.js, .NET, or a comparable stack.
• Strong relational database and SQL skills, including data modeling, query performance, and transactions.
• Experience designing APIs and handling asynchronous processing, integration failures, and retries.
• Hands-on experience deploying, troubleshooting, and operating applications on AWS or another major cloud platform, including working with permissions, networking, and application configuration.
• Experience reviewing and changing infrastructure as code using Terraform or a comparable tool.
• A practical approach to automated testing, safe releases, production debugging, and communicating technical tradeoffs.
• Experience helping other engineers through feedback, technical guidance, or mentoring.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
• AWS and Terraform specifically.
• GraphQL, third-party integrations, and SaaS business workflows.
• Backup and recovery practices, observability, and application security.
• Enough frontend experience to collaborate comfortably in a React/TypeScript application.

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive compensation including meaningful equity you’ll actually be able to use
• Medical, vision, and dental with paid premiums for you, cost-sharing for dependents
• Flexible PTO & 401(k)
• Daily lunches when onsite
• Unlimited book budget
• Company laptop
• Complimentary One Medical membership for you and your family