Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

**About Blackbird** Blackbird Labs is a loyalty and payments platform establishing meaningful connections between the world’s best restaurants and their customers. Served up in 2022 by Ben Leventhal, co-founder of Eater and Resy, Blackbird offers a fully customizable loyalty programming platform for restaurants and a consumer app designed to make every guest feel like a bonafide VIP no matter where they dine. Backed by Union Square Ventures, a16z, Amex Ventures, Variant Fund, and other forward-thinking investors, Blackbird is out to revolutionize the restaurant industry. **About Our Team** At Blackbird, our values guide everything we do and our talent principles define the key traits we seek in our employees. We have passion for our product – committed to our mission and instinctively think like and go the extra mile for our customers. We are elite performers – striving for excellence, going above and beyond to achieve exceptional results, and learning quickly with horsepower, drive, and grit. We make others better – taking initiative to elevate others, giving and receiving feedback, and championing a culture of growth. We hold one another accountable to living out our talent principles as we march together to achieving our mission.

- Design, build, and maintain core backend APIs - Collaborate with product, design, and engineering peers to deliver features aligned with business goals - Contribute to system architecture and implement scalable, robust solutions - Uphold and promote backend best practices, with a focus on code quality, testing, and performance - Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and foster a collaborative, growth-oriented team culture - Participate in product and design discussions, offering backend perspectives on implementation and feasibility

- 5+ years of experience building and deploying backend APIs - Strong proficiency in Kotlin or another statically typed JVM language - Deep experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs using domain-driven design principles - Solid understanding of SQL databases, including schema design and performance tuning - Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality user experiences - Ability to work autonomously and make sound decisions in a fast-moving environment - Experience mentoring engineers and contributing positively to team culture - Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, design, and other stakeholders

- Depending on your work location and experience the target annual salary for this position can range from: $180,000-$220,000 USD. - Full time offers from Blackbird may also include stock options, benefits (including medical, dental, vision, flexible time off, 401(k)), and some not-so-standard, extra-fun perks — subject to applicable taxes and based on eligibility.

Blackbird plc is a London-based SaaS company that develops cloud-native video editing and publishing software for media, broadcasters, creators, and enterprise teams. Its products include the Blackbird platform and elevate.io, and the company operates in the cloud video / software market.