Software Engineer, Backend

Our mission is to uplift as many communities as possible. We do this through our app-based marketplace that connects healthcare professionals with the workplaces that need amazing workers. This enables hundreds of thousands of people to achieve financial stability for themselves and their families while providing essential care to millions of people across the U.S.

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  Write performant backend services using Node/NestJS and reliable frontend experiences with React and TypeScript.

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  Leverage MongoDB, Postgres, and Redis to ensure data integrity and speed at scale.

• Contribute clean, modular code for our web and mobile applications (Ionic/React, Dart/Flutter).

• Work closely with the DevX team to enhance tooling and libraries that bolster productivity across our global engineering org.

• From problem definition and design through to development, testing, demoing, and supporting production code.

• Deploy your own code using trunk-based development and short-lived feature branches with automated regression testing.

• Understand the real-world problems faced by our facility clients, nurses, and internal users.

• Occasionally engage directly with customers to gather feedback, confirm requirements, and ensure solutions truly solve their problems.

• Communicate effectively in a globally distributed team—embrace asynchronous discussions, thorough documentation, and over-communication when needed.

• Participate in daily overlap sessions or syncs, typically in the mornings (US PST), to stay aligned with your team.

• Whether fixing bugs, tackling tech debt (about 20% of our time), or brainstorming new features, always keep the user’s experience front and center.

• Balance speedy fixes for pressing customer issues with longer-term structural improvements.

• Own the systems you build: if something breaks, you’re part of the solution.

• Typically on-call for one week out of the month, ensuring our platform remains reliable around the clock.

• Proficiency in building complex web or mobile apps, ideally with TypeScript, React, and Node/NestJS (but a specific language background is not required)

• Experience developing, monitoring, and supporting services in production.

• Strong understanding of service-specific integration testing, E2E testing, and selective unit tests.

• Familiarity with AWS (ECS, Terraform) and best practices for deploying cloud-based applications.

• You thrive in “low-structure, high-ownership” environments, diving deep into complex issues and surfacing clear, elegant solutions.

• Comfortable balancing immediate customer needs with robust long-term architecture planning.

• Clear writing is essential for our remote culture—you know how to articulate ideas, provide concise PR feedback, and document decisions thoroughly.

• Open to giving and receiving frequent feedback, even when it’s uncomfortable, to drive continuous improvement.

• Driven by a desire to make real-world impacts. You love collaborating with PMs and occasionally customers, ensuring that features resonate with end-users’ needs.

• We serve critical healthcare staffing needs, helping facilities and professionals stay focused on patient care. Your work has immediate, tangible benefits.

• Join a globally distributed team with the flexibility to work from anywhere!

• With significant growth in booked shifts and revenue, you’ll build features that customers are already eager to use.

• We favor a “testing trophy” mindset, regularly reevaluate tech debt, and encourage open, written communication for collaborative problem-solving.

• PR assignment and a follow-up interview

• (Technical Design Document / Second PR assignment) and a follow-up interview

• Hiring Manager interview

• Final round interview with Co-CEO

If you’re passionate about crafting robust, user-friendly features and enjoy a dynamic, remote-first environment, join us at Clipboard.

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