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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Nift is a marketing platform that helps businesses acquire new customers by providing their existing customers with 'thank-you' gift cards to discover new brands and services.

Nift

Employee count: 51-200

United States only

Nift is redefining how customers discover new businesses. With millions of people using Nift each month, our real-time AI platform is built for massive scale on AWS. Our small but nimble product team loves tackling big complex engineering challenges. We look for smart engineers who are passionate about building, owning, and scaling features, while finding creative solutions to technical obstacles.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own projects from start to finish, get excited about writing clean and reliable code, and play a key role in helping to build and scale our AWS infrastructure. This is a high-impact role with direct visibility into how your work drives growth.

One of Nift’s core values is that we make decisions based on data, not seniority or hunches. To be successful in this role, you must be data-driven. You must have a passion for continuously measuring and improving our customers’ experience, and a natural gravitation towards AWS, scalability, and performance related projects.

Team Tech Stack:

  • Ruby on Rails
  • PostgreSQL
  • RSpec
  • JavaScript
  • HTML5
  • Vue.js
  • Redis

What you will do:

  • Own your assigned development projects from start to finish
  • Collaborate with our Chief Architect to design, optimize, enhance and evolve our AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, ECS, etc.)
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines and monitor system health
  • Contribute to architectural decisions across the stack
  • Troubleshoot performance and infrastructure issues, and proactively identify areas for improvement
  • Write clean, tested, maintainable code—and help others do the same through code reviews

Required Skills

  • Proficient in Ruby on Rails
  • Experience with SQL databases
  • Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, ECS, etc.) or Google Cloud infrastructure in a commercial setting
  • Comfortable with CI/CD workflows and Linux environments
  • Strong grasp of software architecture principles and design patterns
  • Able to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Able to persevere through engineering challenges: willingness to embrace and not shy away from a problem you haven’t seen before
  • Open to new ideas and methods of problem solving

*Preferred Skills

  • Experience with distributed systems
  • Experience performance tuning and scaling systems with high volumes of user traffic
  • Experience with Apache Spark
  • Familiarity with database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or NoSQL

What you need

  • Minimum of 10 years of professional experience as a Backend / Infrastructure Software Engineer
  • Passion for backend and infrastructure development
  • Self-motivation, grit, tenacity
  • Ownership Mindset: Proactive and self-driven with a strong sense of initiative, consistently taking responsibility, and exceeds expectations

What you get:

  • Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits (401K, Medical/Dental/Vision), and we offer all full-time employees the potential to hold company equity
  • Flexible remote work
  • Unlimited Responsible PTO
  • Great opportunity to join a growing, cash-flow-positive company while having a direct impact on Nift's revenue, growth, scale, and future success

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Full Time

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Senior

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United States +/- 0 hours

About Nift

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At Nift, we're on a mission to revolutionize the way people discover new businesses and how those businesses find their next loyal customers. We believe that traditional advertising is broken. Instead of interrupting people with ads they don't want to see, we create moments of joy by giving them 'thank you' gifts. Our journey began with a simple idea: what if we could help neighborhood businesses thrive by connecting them with the right local customers in a way that feels like a gift, not a sales pitch? That's how Nift was born. We partner with great companies and apps that people already use and love. When their customers do something awesome, like write a review or make a purchase, our partners thank them with a Nift gift card. This isn't just any gift card; it's a key to a curated selection of products and services from amazing brands and local spots that we know they'll love.

Our secret sauce is a powerful, patented AI platform that matches each person with the perfect gift options based on their interests. This creates a win-win-win situation: consumers get to try something new and exciting, our partners get to delight their customers and build loyalty, and our featured businesses get discovered by new, enthusiastic patrons who are likely to come back again and again. We're proud to have built a network of thousands of incredible brands, from direct-to-consumer innovators to beloved neighborhood restaurants and shops across the country. We're a fully remote team, but our roots are in Boston, and our passion for helping small businesses and creating positive connections is what drives us every day. We're not just building a marketing platform; we're building a community and changing the face of local commerce for the better, one thank-you gift at a time.

Employee benefits

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Health Insurance

We provide comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance so you can be your best.

Dental Insurance

We provide comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance so you can be your best.

Vision Insurance

We provide comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance so you can be your best.

Flexible working hours

Although our origins began in Boston, we are a fully-remote team across all 50 states.

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