Senior / Staff Backend engineer

At Supernova, we're on a mission to supercharge the productivity of product teams by eliminating tedious, time-consuming tasks, and rekindling the joy of creating exceptional user experiences. Our platform automates and streamlines key aspects of product development, with a particular focus on design systems and their seamless integration across the development lifecycle.

Founded in 2018, and after years of research and development tackling some of the toughest challenges in the industry, Supernova is rapidly becoming the platform of choice for many of the world's most innovative and impactful companies.

From the very beginning, Supernova has been a remote-first company. Our team is globally distributed across 11 (and counting) countries, bringing together diverse backgrounds and extensive experience collaborating with product, design, and development teams. We are at the most exciting point in Supernova's history—experiencing significant growth of our platform, welcoming top-tier companies, including Fortune 500 leaders, securing substantial investments, and preparing to launch an exciting new product feature focused on [redacted ] that will revolutionize how products are developed in the future.

For backend-oriented roles, future Supernovans must demonstrate exceptional self-management and problem-solving abilities. Every day, we tackle complex challenges and build solid foundations that drive our product forward. Our backend systems leverage , TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, and more—and we expect you to have outstanding expertise with these technologies as a starting point.

Please note: We are an equal opportunity employer. At this time, we can only support hiring within the EU or our Prague office for this role.

At Supernova, you'll be responsible for:

• Designing and implementing high-performance, reliable APIs that power key functionalities for top-tier companies
• Rapidly iterating with product teams to enhance existing features and develop new capabilities
• Solving challenging problems such as optimizing the performance of large data sets and architecting robust, real-time services
• Adding real-time multiplayer capabilities across the platform to support collaborative features
• Improving and extending core backend services that support our cutting-edge documentation editor and other front-end experiences
• Using our own product day-to-day to dogfood new backend features and services
• Building AI-powered experiences of various kinds
• Working on [unannounced ] features to redefine what product development is

Tech & Tools we use:

• , TypeScript, Postgres, AWS, Docker
• REST for primary communication and WebSockets (e.g., ) for multiplayer
• Infrastructure managed by SST + CDK
• CloudWatch, Sentry and other logging/monitoring tools
• GitHub Copilot or equivalent
• GitHub, Slack, Notion

We want to hear from you if you:

• Have 7+ years of experience building and maintaining backend systems
• Have professional experience with most technologies mentioned above
• Launched multiple professional products (or major features) in the past
• Worked on complex systems with high availability requirements
• Worked in/with high-performing, English-speaking teams
• Actively explore the idea of automating as much of your work as possible
• (bonus) Previously worked on product development-related tooling
• (bonus) Build project(s) on the side you'd like to tell us about

Our offer to you:

• The opportunity to solve challenging problems that extend beyond your role
• An amazing team of highly skilled teammates to learn from—and to share your unique expertise with
• A healthy work-life balance
• Competitive salary
• Attractive equity package with significant upside potential (we are still early and growing rapidly)
• Fully remote work flexibility
• Access to our beautiful Prague office if you prefer an in-person environment
• 25 days of annual leave + sick days
• Flexible health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
• Team events and offsites