Backend Engineer

Posted 21 Days Ago
New York, NY
Hybrid
3-5 Years Experience
Agency • Mobile
Utility designs and develops award-winning mobile applications and digital platforms.
The Role
As a Backend Engineer, you will design and develop backend features for web applications, collaborating with product and design teams, ensuring code quality, fixing bugs, and participating in the development life cycle. You'll work on large-scale products while advocating best practices in software engineering.
Summary Generated by Built In

Backend Engineers are key members of our engineering team, building the back end services and infrastructure essential to our clients' products. Over time, we expect you to grow by learning and practicing technical ownership, promoting best practices in coding and architecture, collaborating with and mentoring other members of the engineering team, and becoming a vocal advocate of our engineering forward culture.
Backend Engineers are key members of our engineering team, building the back end services and infrastructure essential to our clients' products. Over time, we expect you to grow by learning and practicing technical ownership, promoting best practices in coding and architecture, collaborating with and mentoring other members of the engineering team, and becoming a vocal advocate of our engineering forward culture.
Our clients rely on us to build and grow their businesses and we are committed to building fast and scalable products that people love, all while using best practices and the latest technologies.
Who We Are
Utility is an end-to-end mobile app and digital platform agency, focusing on designing and engineering today's mobile-first businesses and new ventures. Founded by digital leaders from companies like Major League Baseball and McCann Erickson, Utility is built by folks that have been on the other side of the table. We treat every project as if it was our own, from startup ventures to blue chip brands.
Why Utility

  • We build award-winning apps that make a large impact
  • We are one of the most diverse and inclusive agencies in NYC
  • Family-style culture and work-life balance
  • We are a lean, tenacious machine powered by the sharpest, most passionate people in the industry


The Ideal Candidate

  • Design and development of backend features and components for bespoke internal web applications
  • Work with Product and Design counterparts to bring features from conception to launch
  • Collaborate with other engineers in API design and development
  • Write clean, high-quality code and tests while keeping the user experience fast and reliable
  • Help triage bugs, track software defects, and ensure their timely resolution
  • Participate in development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing and production release.
  • Define and steward technical standards and quality with fellow Engineers
  • Conduct peer code reviews for pull requests


Backend Engineers have the freedom to create products people love. You'll collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to build large-scale products for well-known brands. We look for team members who advocate for software engineering best practices and inspire their team to continuously learn and improve. Working at Utility isn't just about your skills. We value people who are kind and work well on a team.
If this sounds appealing so far, we'd love to talk to you!

What the Team is Saying

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The Company
New York, NY
75 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Utility is an award-winning agency that crafts digital products that fuel tomorrow’s brands. We partner with our clients to design and develop custom mobile applications and websites that scale. From Fortune 500 brands to innovative startups, we work with clients to bring their big ideas to life and transform their businesses.

Why Work With Us

We design and build industry-leading digital products, from mobile apps and web properties, to machine learning and AI, as we position our clients as innovators in their industries. We are a team of experts passionate about transforming human experiences through design and technology. We’re also nice.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
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