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BACKEND ENGINEER (MID–SENIOR) at Urban Legend. Location Information: Anywhere in the World. . . Headquarters:. Washington, DC . URL:. . https://urbanlegend.co/. . . LOCATION REQUIREMENTS (NO EXCEPTIONS). . Remote: Must reside in Texas, USA. . We are unable to consider candidates outside of Texas for this remote role.. . ROLE DESCRIPTION. . This is a full-time Backend Engineer role reporting directly to the CTO, open to either a late mid-level engineer ready to level up or a solidly senior engineer looking for ownership and impact. Title and comp will be calibrated to experience. You'll have direct access to senior technical leadership and a real voice in shaping our architecture and roadmap with no layers in between.. . You will design, develop, and maintain the scalable backend services that power Urban Legend's campaigns, creator tools, and conversion tracking. You'll work across a polyglot stack, primarily Python/Django and Ruby/Rails, and contribute to an active migration of our infrastructure from Heroku to Render. You'll partner closely with product, design, and front-end engineers to ship customer-facing features end-to-end.. . We move fast, ship often, and use modern AI tooling (Cursor in particular) as a core part of our day-to-day workflow. Above all, we are looking for someone with a strong bias toward action. You'd rather ship something today, learn from it, and iterate than spend a week debating the perfect approach.. . . . . . . . WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON. . . . Our backend ecosystem includes:. . . . • A Django/DRF monolith (Postgres, Redis, RQ workers, Docker). . • Two Ruby on Rails services (Rails 7/8, Postgres, Puma). . • A Flask service for high-throughput conversion tracking. . • A Node.js/TypeScript service (Express, Drizzle, Playwright/Puppeteer). . • Shared infrastructure across Docker, Postgres, Redis, and AWS — currently in the middle of a Heroku → Render migration. . . . . . REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS. . . . • A strong bias toward action. You ship, you measure, you iterate. You don't get stuck in analysis paralysis, and you're comfortable making good-enough decisions with incomplete information.. . • Strong, production-level expertise in either Python/Django or Ruby on Rails. You don't need both on day one, but you should be excellent in one and excited to ramp quickly on the other.. . • Demonstrated ability to learn unfamiliar frameworks and languages quickly. We'll occasionally need you in Flask, Node/TypeScript, or wherever the work lives.. . • Solid fundamentals in OOP, relational databases (Postgres), REST API design, background job processing, and caching (Redis).. . • Comfortable working in Docker-based local and production environments.. . • Experience building scalable, high-performance, secure backend systems.. . • Strong collaboration skills in a remote/hybrid environment, with exceptional problem-solving ability and attention to detail.. . • Active, hands-on experience with AI coding tools, particularly Cursor, and a point of view on how to use them effectively.. . • Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.. . . . . . STRONGLY PREFERRED. . . . • Infrastructure / platform experience — you're a product engineer first, but you've spent time on a platform team or otherwise have meaningful DevOps chops. We are looking for someone who can add real value to our Heroku → Render migration, not a pure DevOps hire who can't ship product work.. . • Hands-on experience with Render, Heroku, or similar PaaS platforms.. . • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, observability (Sentry, logging, metrics), and zero-downtime deploys.. . • Familiarity with AWS (S3, Lambda, etc.).. . • Front-end literacy sufficient to integrate cleanly with our React/TypeScript clients.. . . . . . NICE TO HAVE. . . . • Experience with creator / marketing / ad-tech platforms.. . • Experience with payments (PayPal, Stripe, Brex, etc.).. . • Experience with web scraping, headless browsers (Playwright/Puppeteer).. . . . BENEFITS:. . . Industry competitive compensation with significant opportunities for growth. . Health benefits package. . Unlimited PTO. . . . . To apply:. . https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/urban-legend-backend-engineer-mid-senior.