# Staff Backend Engineer at Future

- Company: Future
- What the company does: Work with an expert fitness coach and get custom workout plans for weight loss and strength training. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Techstars.
- Company website: https://www.future.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/future/jobs/4667019005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/future-staff-backend-engineer/

## About the role

Backend engineers at Future operate at all levels -- building out core services, data pipelines, essential business systems, developer operations, and customer-facing features.

## What they're looking for

- Great Product thinking. You think about the end user experience when you are building to consider whether the features you are building are not only meeting requirements but delighting users
- 8+ years of production development experience, specifically working on backend / API
- Scrappiness and pragmatism. We are a small and fast-moving startup and value someone who can continually weigh tradeoffs to balance engineering excellence with velocity
- Strong knowledge of Go, AWS, Docker (ECS), Postgres (RDS)
- Proven ability to employ software quality measures during development, such as unit/integration testing, monitoring, alerting
- Experience managing Docker-based microservice architecture

Tags: Engineering