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Senior Backend Engineer, Growth (US)

Nanit · New York, NY (Hybrid) · Hybrid

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About Nanit

Nanit lets parents track the health, wellness and development of their baby—from sleep and breathing to growth—delivering personalized insights and advice. Backed by GV.

About the role

Here, your work directly impacts millions of families. Our team of scientists, engineers, and parents is small but mighty - we share a mission to make early childhood easier, healthier, and more connected. If you want to work on technology that genuinely matters, join us.

What they're looking for

  • Professional Experience: 5+ years of backend software development with strong coding skills and solid experience in software design and architecture
  • Proven Autonomy: Demonstrated success working with significant independence - ideally in a distributed team with limited timezone overlap with your manager or peers
  • Written Communication: Excellent asynchronous communication. You write clearly enough that decisions and context survive without a meeting
  • Product Mindset: Comfort with ambiguity and with shipping to learn. You care about the outcome metric, not only the ticket
  • High-Scale Systems: Experience with critical production systems and techniques like load balancing, caching, and distributed systems
  • Web Services: Proficiency designing and maintaining APIs consumed by mobile clients (REST, gRPC, WebSocket)
More about this role

Nanit is moving families beyond overwhelm by transforming how parents understand their baby's early years. We combine advanced AI, real-world data from billions of sleep hours, and clinical expertise to deliver the clarity and confidence every parent deserves. Trusted by over one million families and backed by $125M in funding, we're building an entirely new category: predictive parenting intelligence.

Here, your work directly impacts millions of families. Our team of scientists, engineers, and parents is small but mighty - we share a mission to make early childhood easier, healthier, and more connected. If you want to work on technology that genuinely matters, join us.

You'll be the founding backend engineer on a new Growth team - a cross-functional squad owning the full customer funnel, from a parent first considering Nanit through purchase, subscription, engagement, and eventually referring to us or buying again. You'll also be the first R&D engineer based at our US site, hybrid, with your manager and the rest of the team in a different time zone - so you'll need to hold context, make decisions, unblock yourself, and know when a question is worth raising rather than waiting on...

Read the full posting on Nanit's site ↗

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