Backend Engineer
This description is a wishlist, not a checklist. We want to find a super-amazing person to join our team, and we’re well aware that “super-amazing” can come in all different forms. If you’re a little less experienced on a specific bullet point, or if you didn’t go to a fancy school, apply anyway. We look at candidates, not resumes.
About the Role
Nebula is looking for a Backend Engineer to shape, build, maintain and optimize the APIs that support Nebula. You’ll be joining a team of senior engineers and will have lots of autonomy and immediate impact building the foundational services that make Nebula a fast, stable and user-friendly platform.
Responsibilities
Own, shape, and maintain the APIs that support our applications for creators, sponsors, and end-users
Collaborate with other backend team members to make Nebula’s APIs better
Work with mobile and web engineers to identify potential API improvements
Help develop the technology roadmap going forward
Help take new features from idea to shipped product
Troubleshoot live issues
Help identify and mitigate threats
What We’re Looking For
3+ years of back-end engineering experience building and maintaining user-facing applications and APIs
Proactive and responsive communicator
Patient & considerate
Curious & self-motivated
Nice to have technology experience
Python/Django - Largely using Django Rest Framework
PostgreSQL
Docker Containers running in a K8s cluster
Linux (Mostly Alpine)
AWS - We use several services including: EC2, S3, RDS, and Cloudfront
Stripe, Google and Apple APIs
Perks
Competitive salary between $115,000-$140,000 USD or local international equivalent. We do not use formal job titles internally and similarly named positions may have different compensation levels. Actual starting salary will depend on various considerations, including: work experience, skills, specializations, training, and location.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Nebula does not provide visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future.
Flexible work hours and vacation policy.
Must be US-based.
Fully work-from-home.
Diverse, socially-minded team of nice people.
Medical, dental, and vision plans (for US-based employees).
401(k) and other benefits (for US-based employees).
Nebula is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, age, and disability.
About Us
Nebula is both the largest and fastest growing creator-built premium streaming service. The success of the indie platform has been built upon the pioneering premise that the future of the creator economy should belong to the creators, and we are here to empower and enable their dreams. Nebula has successfully charted its own path in the streaming space since its inception — earning a reputation for being where creators go to develop premium content that wouldn’t be possible elsewhere. Nebula has successfully broken the mold with 200+ creators who are not only instrumental in rounding out the platform’s library, but also in building the roadmap for the company’s daily operations and carefully curating its creator community. We do a lot of things to support creators, but most of our time is spent talking or working with the creators directly, one on one or in a group, coming up with better tools and toys for them. In 2024, we were listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies”.
We’re a distributed company. We have offices in NYC and Denver, but more than 80% of the team is remote, in exotic locations like the UK, the Netherlands, France, and Ohio.
There are things to do and meetings to be had, but we pride ourselves on our flexibility. We think this makes Nebula a great place to work for people with families, or whose productive hours tend to be outside of the 9-5. We care about what you do more than when you do it.
How We Hire
We think that diversity is important. Many of us have non-traditional backgrounds. We work in the online education space, so we understand how much can be learned on your own, on the Internet, outside of a classroom.
If that sounds like you, we’re happy to care less how many years of experience you have or where you went to school. Apply anyway. And if you have any feedback on how we could reach or appeal to a more diverse pool of talent, get in touch.