Backend Engineer

About Tinybird:

What we are looking for:

• You are a highly-experienced Backend engineer building complex web services and low level problems. The language is not important, we use Python and C++ today, but we are not tied to anything.
• Write code for web-based services, create fast, easy-to-use, high volume production applications, and engineer prototypes quickly. Speed always wins.
• Contributes to engineering efforts from planning and organization, to execution and delivery to solve complex engineering problems.
• Loves data and SQL
• You take ownership, follow through, and make progress even when things aren’t fully defined.
• You use AI tools (like Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, or others) to go faster, stay unblocked, and write better code.
• You are fluent in English. If you speak Spanish, Russian, or Mandarin also, that would be amazing and it would make us all wonder what we have done with our lives.
• You communicate well in writing. This is important not only because we favor asynchronous work but also because you will have to write documentation, guides, and the occasional blog post.
• You are able to participates as part of the on-call team, to understand not only our product, but also the issues our clients face.

How could your typical day look like?

• In this company, everyone is part of the product team. While your focus will be on Backend development, the priorities of what you tackle will be mostly driven by the things we want to accomplish with the product.
• Depending on the week, you could be working on the priorities for the Backend team: which means, working on new additions for our observability, ingesting or integrating a new connector, fixing problems on parts of the product already identified, or adding new capabilities for any user-facing analytics use case. Or, working at the Operations Squad team, which is a team where different members of the Product team work on fixing problems reported by our customers, improving or monitoring features we have just released, or removing some technical debt we identified.
• We discuss the product pretty much every day. It needs to balance today’s problems with tomorrow’s, so the vision of someone working with the product to fix real problems is crucial, but the outlook of someone who knows the internals is invaluable to making the right long-term decisions.

How we work:

• We’re a remote company, committed to a remote-first culture—but we’ve found that being together in person, especially in our Madrid office, often helps us move faster, stay aligned, and solve problems more effectively. So, every now and then, we try to meet in person and spend some time together.
• As we’re in the early stages, your contributions will have a significant impact on everything we do.
• We believe in transparency, so you’ll always be in the loop about what’s happening.
• Check out our blog or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s important to us.