Senior Backend Engineer

• Industrious’s Growth Engineering team owns every customer-facing surface we build: the member portal, the mobile app, the public site, for a member base growing alongside 100+ new locations this year. This Senior Backend Engineer seat is backend-leaning, genuinely full-stack, and comes with early access to the decisions that shape what gets built, not just how. You’ll own production systems real members rely on every day, and design real AI agentic systems, agents, MCP servers, and the guardrails that keep them safe in production, not just use AI coding tools day to day
• You’ll join a team of five to six, reporting to our Growth Engineering Manager. Code ships often here, you’ll see the result of your work in the product within days, not quarters, at a company that’s profitable, CBRE-backed, and still scaling fast
• It’s Wednesday, Hub Day, so you’re in our New York HQ with the rest of the local team. Standup surfaces a reservation-access bug: a member’s on-demand booking isn’t unlocking their room. You trace it through a Kafka event that never fired, patch the service, and ship the fix before lunch
• In the afternoon you sit down with Product and Design to look at the next iteration of the credit-expansion feature, the one that lets members book new locations with their existing credits. You flag a data-modeling tradeoff nobody had considered, sketch two approaches, and the three of you land on one together, before a single ticket gets written
• Later, you pick up a small frontend fix on the member portal. It’s not glamorous, but it’s yours to own like everything else here
• Build and operate the backend services (Node.js, TypeScript, Kafka, MongoDB) powering the systems thousands of members use every day
• Drive the expansion of our member credit system so members can book new locations, and lead the reservation-experience redesign in our newest member portal
• Own reservation-based access: the system that gets a member into the exact room and location tied to their on-demand booking
• Push our site’s performance and reliability forward for our members as an ongoing discipline, not a side project
• Ship across the stack, backend, frontend (React, Next.js), and occasionally mobile (React Native, Expo), so the team is never blocked by a single layer
• Design and build AI agentic systems, agents, MCP servers, and the guardrails that keep them safe, as we integrate intelligent features directly into our core platforms
• Help the team get sharper with AI-assisted engineering as we build that muscle together

Benefits

• Healthcare - We care deeply about the physical and emotional well-being of our employees. That’s why we offer a range of plan options through United Healthcare, including a variety of employer-paid plans that provide coverage for employees and their families
• Flexible Vacation Time - At Industrious we have a flexible PTO policy. This encourages people to enjoy life outside of work, recharge and look after their mental and emotional health. Take the time you need to have a balanced and fulfilling personal life
• Paid Parental Leave - Families come in all shapes, sizes, and types. We welcome each new addition with generous paid leave so that you can bond with your new child
• Learning & Development Grant - We’re committed to your professional development. We’re proud to offer a yearly grant so that you can take a class or learn a new skill
• Employee Resource Groups - These groups support, promote, and celebrate team members united around shared characteristics or life experiences

Preferred experience

• You want your technical read to shape what we build, not just how we build it: a seat at the table before a ticket exists, not after
• You’re comfortable moving fast and fixing forward, especially now that AI tooling makes course-correcting cheaper
• You want to build your track record somewhere genuinely growing, not managing decline: Industrious is profitable, CBRE-backed, and still scaling fast, and this puts real infrastructure ownership in your hands while that happens
• You love owning a real slice of a product thousands of members use every week, not maintaining someone else’s legacy system
• You’re low-ego and direct, and you know how to read a room: when to jump in and when to let someone else run
• You thrive on a small team where you’re expected to touch the whole stack, not stay in one lane
• You want to design AI agentic systems yourself, not just use AI coding tools day to day, alongside real depth in event-driven backend architecture
• A real track record shipping and running production backend services in Node.js and TypeScript, including event-driven systems (we lean on Kafka)
• Comfortable with NoSQL data (we run MongoDB), and with picking up ambiguous problems and driving them to a working solution
• Nice to have: Next.js experience
• Genuine full-stack range: you’ve shipped production React work too, and you’re glad to pick up mobile (React Native, Expo) when it’s needed, not just backend
• Hands-on experience designing and building AI agentic systems (AI agents, e.g. LangChain or ADK, MCP servers, production AI guardrails and monitoring), not just day-to-day use of AI coding tools