# Senior Backend Engineer, Growth (US) at Nanit

- Company: Nanit
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.nanit.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $180K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.nanit.com/pages/careers?gh_jid=6136191004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nanit-senior-backend-engineer-growth-us/

## 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)

Tags: Research & Development