# Backend Engineer

About Us Collective Goods Holdings, Inc. (CGH) is a privately held holding company behind Books Are Fun, Inc. - a company with a simple but powerful mission: to inspire lifelong readers by getting kids excited about books. Books Are Fun energizes communities, schools, and families to ensure every child has books at home, because we believe reading can change the world. To learn more about our companies and how we spark a lifelong love of reading, please visit our website at https://booksarefun.com/book-blast Position Summary First and foremost, you are a pragmatic builder of products. You care about solving problems for a large variety of internal users through technology. You find joy in working closely with stakeholders throughout the company to help them achieve their goals. You prefer simplicity and maintainability to complexity in your approach to building software and you prefer done to perfect. We’re working every day to build and refine digital products that delight users and streamline business processes. Our products will help the company to scale effectively with its rapidly growing product lines that will ultimately allow us to put more books into kid’s hands. We see an

- **Id**: 4298265
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/books-are-fun-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T20:43:07Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T02:24:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4688
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Dental insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Books

## Company

- **Id**: 2565325
- **Name**: Books Are Fun
- **Domain**: booksarefun.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/booksarefun>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Metabase** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T02:24:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T03:37:29Z

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