Job Title: Backend Software Developer

Company Name: Planera

Job Url: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/planera/8fcbe202-8880-4f74-95e6-6f2f1219950e

Job Description: 
Backend Software Developer
Location
United States, Canada

Employment Type
Full time

Location Type
Remote

Department
Engineering

Overview
Application
About the Role
Join Planera to build resilient, scalable backend systems that power our construction planning platform. You’ll design and evolve microservices, model and operate data on MongoDB and complementary stores, and ship production services written in Python and Go. This is a product engineering role with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and data correctness, with AI- and analytics-driven features as key accelerators.

Key Responsibilities
Design, implement, and own microservices in Go and Python with clear APIs and SLAs

Model domain data and implement performant data access patterns on MongoDB

Develop internal and public APIs that power our product and partner integrations

Implement observability across services: structured logging, tracing, metrics

Ensure security, reliability, and cost efficiency across deployments (AWS/GCP)

Collaborate with product and frontend to deliver features end-to-end

Partner with AI engineers to integrate LLM-based capabilities and analytics pipelines into backend services

Contribute to CI/CD, testing strategy, and deployment automation

Requirements
4+ years backend or server-side engineering experience

Proficiency in Go and/or Python building production services

Strong experience with MongoDB data modeling, indexes, aggregation, and performance tuning; familiarity with transactions

Solid understanding of microservice architectures, API design (REST/websockets/SSE), and interservice communication

Cloud experience (AWS or GCP), containers, and orchestration (Docker, ECS/EKS/GKE)

Robust testing practices and CI/CD experience

Observability fundamentals: logs, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting

Product mindset with a focus on user impact and pragmatic tradeoffs

Development with security in mind (secure coding practices, least privilege, secrets management, and common API threat mitigations).

Excellent remote communication skills

Preferred
Experience pairing MongoDB with complementary stores and caches (PostgreSQL, Redis, vector DBs)

Hands-on work with analytics pipelines and data warehouses (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake) and exposing analytics to product features

Practical experience integrating AI/LLM services or building retrieval/augmentation services around them

Domain knowledge in construction tech or project management

Tech Stack
Go, Python, MongoDB, Redis, REST/websockets, Kafka/SQS/PubSub, Docker, AWS/GCP, Terraform, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog

Why Join Us
Impact: Be at the forefront of transforming a $12.1 trillion industry. Make a meaningful impact on how the world builds.

Culture: Join a smart, spirited team dedicated to innovation and excellence.

Growth: Opportunity for professional growth and career advancement in a fast-paced start-up environment.

Benefits
Competitive salary, stock options, benefits package, and a dynamic work environment.

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