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Software Engineer [Backend

Software Engineer [Backend]

What is Fizz

Fizz is the dominant social platform for Gen-Z to connect with their immediate communities. Each Fizz community has a private and moderated feed of anonymous posts, authored by verified students at their school, providing the most entertaining, relatable, and interesting conversations about student life.

Students can post questions, memes, polls, and chat with other verified students while maintaining control over their identity and privacy. Fizz communities prioritize safety, authenticity, and inclusion through community-based moderation.

Founded by two Stanford dropouts, Fizz is currently expanding across colleges and high schools across the US with a mission to redefine the “social network” in a time when legacy platforms lack authenticity and are filled with curated highlight reels.

What we’ve done

We first launched Fizz at Stanford in July 2021 and have since seen >95% of undergraduates join the app, half of which use Fizz every day. Since raising a $25M Series B in July 2023, we have established ourselves as the dominant community platform at 350+ colleges, have begun to generate revenue through partnerships, and are actively expanding to communities beyond college.

Where we’re going

We have three primary goals for 2025: continue our expansion to the entire US college market, drive revenue growth through continuous product iteration, and build products to expand our user base and become the dominant social platform for all of Gen-Z, not just US college students.

What you’ll be doing

Our engineering team is lean, and we heavily value ownership and autonomy. Specifically, some of the things you can expect to work on include:

  • Owning end-to-end technical development of large product features that must scale to millions of users

  • Applying emerging technology such as LLMs and vector databases to novel product use cases like content recommendation and content moderation

  • Collaborating with our product lead and product designer to create user-friendly experiences

  • Working directly with our growth team to automate user acquisition and evangelize an engineering-driven mindset across the company

  • Actively setting up new tools and infrastructure to improve our team’s output

Qualifications

  • 2-7 years of experience of relevant backend development experience

  • Direct experience building products from 0-1 

  • Hands-on experience with TypeScript/NodeJS

  • Strong understanding of cutting-edge backend technologies, including API design, database optimization (SQL/NoSQL), secure data handling, and horizontally scaling infrastructure in cloud environments

  • Experience working in startup-like environments where ambiguities, shifting requirements, and iterative development is common

  • Strong engineering intuition: Learn fast, be adaptable 

  • Extreme hunger to take ownership and actively drive engineering initiatives

  • Eager to learn new skills at a fast pace and empower team members by sharing acquired knowledge

  • Strong grasp on product and ability to intuitively develop features that Gen-Z will use and love.

Bonus Points

  • Experience working with consumer-user-facing products.

  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform or MongoDB

  • iOS development experience, or experience working on the backend for a mobile application

Compensation for this role is between $140,000 - $200,000 a year based on job related skills and experience. Fizz full-time employees are eligible to receive company sponsored benefits and stock options.

Our ideal candidate will be available to be onsite 5 days per week.

[Relocation packages available for the right candidate]

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$170000 / YEARLY (est.)
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