Backend Engineer
Athena Hq
Posted: December 11, 2025
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Quick Summary
Build core platform features that align with needs for Fortune 500 and fast-growing AI companies like Greptile, Julius, Render, SoFi, and more.
Required Skills
Job Description
Mission
• Build core platform features that align with needs for Fortune 500 and fast-growing AI companies like Greptile, Julius, Render, SoFi, and more
• Translate business problems to technical implementation
Outcomes
• Speed up latency by XXXms
• Reduce user workload by X hours/week through automations
• Build features that users don’t know they want by understanding their goals and finding better ways to get to their goals
• Ship full-stack product features with Next.js + TypeScript
• Design clean database schemas and queries
• Build long-lasting Temporal workflows for complex business logic
• Develop responsive, accessible UI components
• Contribute to architectural and tech choices
Competencies
• Customer empathy
• 3+ years of experience
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical ability
• High agency–founded something in the past or worked on side project in the past
• Learns fast, thrives in ambiguity
• Spiky in one area (ex frontend/design, backend, databases)
• Intelligence, drive, values
• Knowledge of distributed systems
Bonus Points:
• Temporal experience
• Knowledge in marketing technology and content management systems (CMS)