{"id":64963,"date":"2026-04-29T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hir1.com\/job\/urban-legend-backend-engineer-mid-senior\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:15:17","slug":"urban-legend-backend-engineer-mid-senior","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/hir1.com\/ar\/job\/urban-legend-backend-engineer-mid-senior\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Legend: BACKEND ENGINEER (MID\u2013SENIOR)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Region: Anywhere in the World<\/p>\n

State: Texas<\/p>\n

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\n Headquarters:<\/strong> Washington, DC
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URL:<\/strong> https:\/\/urbanlegend.co\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

LOCATION REQUIREMENTS (NO EXCEPTIONS)<\/p>\n

Remote: Must reside in Texas, USA<\/p>\n

We are unable to consider candidates outside of Texas for this remote role.<\/p>\n

ROLE DESCRIPTION<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON<\/p>\n

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Our backend ecosystem includes:<\/p>\n

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\u2022 A Django\/DRF monolith (Postgres, Redis, RQ workers, Docker)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Two Ruby on Rails services (Rails 7\/8, Postgres, Puma)<\/p>\n

\u2022 A Flask service for high-throughput conversion tracking<\/p>\n

\u2022 A Node.js\/TypeScript service (Express, Drizzle, Playwright\/Puppeteer)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Shared infrastructure across Docker, Postgres, Redis, and AWS \u2014 currently in the middle of a Heroku \u2192 Render migration<\/p>\n

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REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS<\/p>\n

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\u2022 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.<\/p>\n

\u2022 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.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Demonstrated ability to learn unfamiliar frameworks and languages quickly. We’ll occasionally need you in Flask, Node\/TypeScript, or wherever the work lives.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Solid fundamentals in OOP, relational databases (Postgres), REST API design, background job processing, and caching (Redis).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Comfortable working in Docker-based local and production environments.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Experience building scalable, high-performance, secure backend systems.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Strong collaboration skills in a remote\/hybrid environment, with exceptional problem-solving ability and attention to detail.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Active, hands-on experience with AI coding tools, particularly Cursor, and a point of view on how to use them effectively.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.<\/p>\n

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STRONGLY PREFERRED<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Infrastructure \/ platform experience \u2014 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 \u2192 Render migration, not a pure DevOps hire who can’t ship product work.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hands-on experience with Render, Heroku, or similar PaaS platforms.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Experience with CI\/CD pipelines, container orchestration, observability (Sentry, logging, metrics), and zero-downtime deploys.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Familiarity with AWS (S3, Lambda, etc.).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Front-end literacy sufficient to integrate cleanly with our React\/TypeScript clients.<\/p>\n

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NICE TO HAVE<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Experience with creator \/ marketing \/ ad-tech platforms.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Experience with payments (PayPal, Stripe, Brex, etc.).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Experience with web scraping, headless browsers (Playwright\/Puppeteer).<\/p>\n

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BENEFITS:<\/p>\n