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Senior Backend Engineer, Growth (US)

Nanit · New York, NY (Hybrid)

Posted about 2 months ago · $180K to $200K

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
72 days
Nanit's roles stay open a median of 75 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
Yes
70% of Nanit's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Nanit
high
10 stale, 2 reposted of 10 open
Hiring momentum
16 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-23

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Nanit's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Nanit.

About this role

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Growth team at Nanit, you will be responsible for building and maintaining backend services that support various customer engagement initiatives, including paywalls, subscriptions, and referral mechanics. You will work closely with mobile engineers and product managers to design APIs and ensure that growth strategies are data-driven through experimentation and instrumentation. This role requires high autonomy and effective communication, as you will be the first R&D engineer based in the US, operating in a hybrid work environment.

Our read on this posting3.6out of 5
benefits
4/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
5/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Nanit as an employer.

What you need

  • 5+ years of backend software development experience
  • Strong coding skills and solid experience in software design and architecture
  • Demonstrated success working with significant independence in a distributed team
  • Excellent asynchronous communication skills
  • Experience with critical production systems and techniques like load balancing, caching, and distributed systems
  • Proficiency designing and maintaining APIs consumed by mobile clients (REST, gRPC, WebSocket)

Nice to have

  • Experience with consumer subscription products
  • Prior work on a growth, monetization, or lifecycle team
  • Ability to independently take a concept from research to production
  • Enthusiasm for new technologies and willingness to explore them
  • Commitment to well-crafted and rigorously tested code

What you get

  • Hybrid in-office schedule
  • Remote work from home month in August
  • Flexible PTO
  • Equity options
  • Paid parental leave for all new parents
  • Employee discounts on Nanit products

Worth weighing

  • No specific technologies or frameworks mentioned for backend development
  • The role requires high autonomy and effective communication due to timezone differences with the team
  • The position is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days in the NYC office per week

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Listed by Nanit on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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