# Staff Software Engineer, Backend

About Posh We are all social creatures, but the dominant “social” companies today have evolved into digital loneliness machines, driving isolation, anxiety, and mental health challenges around the world. Human connection is lost. Posh is a beacon guiding us back. Posh enables anyone to build an IRL community based on shared interests, while connecting consumers with the communities of people just like them. Founded by event organizers who were frustrated with the growing loneliness epidemic and the tools available to build their own event brand, we’ve built the ultimate platform for launching, monetizing, and finding IRL communities of people just like you. In just 6 years, Posh has grown to a team of 70, expanded to 10M+ users, secured $70m in venture funding, and facilitated over $400M in transactions. About The Role At Posh, you'll set the technical direction for our backend systems. As Staff Backend Engineer, you own architecture across multiple services, drive platform improvements, and ship production code yourself. Staff at Posh means breadth and depth. You'll make architectural calls that affect multiple teams, not only your own squad. You'll raise the bar through design re

- **Id**: 32309
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/posh-staff-software-engineer-backend>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-15T15:40:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-05-15
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T02:27:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 176
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4317
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 1758015
- **Name**: Posh
- **Domain**: posh.vip
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/posh-vip>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 250000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 175

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-05-15T15:40:46Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.565
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 175
- **Expected fill days**: 68
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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