Backend Engineer, Primitives

Role Overview

At Lapel, we're building a data, infrastructure, and tools that help customer-facing teams understand every customer and act on that insight at scale. We're looking for a Backend Engineer to own the object models, contracts, and abstractions that every product experience is built on top of.

What You Will Do

Build the state, history, permissioning, and event models that make every Lapel primitive reliable and extensible, design an extensibility model, and make primitives usable by both people and agents.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You'll thrive in this role if you have 3+ years of backend or software engineering experience, are comfortable designing APIs, data models, permissions, and backend abstractions, and enjoy turning messy real-world workflows into reliable, reusable systems.

Requirements

• 3+ years of backend or software engineering experience
• Designing APIs, data models, permissions, and backend abstractions
• Strong judgment about when to keep systems simple, when to make them flexible, and when to make clear product decisions

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Full benefits: medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and commuter benefits
• Generous time off: many company holidays and coordinated team-wide breaks throughout the year
• Office perks: lunch and dinner provided daily, in-office snacks, and health & wellness benefits
• Team culture: regular off-sites, tight feedback loops, and a bias toward action