Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Systems

People want to be informed and entertained. Great products make the two inseparable.

Noise is a platform to discover and trade trends. Every day, millions of people make predictions about what will continue to matter: a brand, a conflict, a new technology. These predictions shape the global economy and advance culture. AI slop and the internet have accelerated content production to such an extent that predicting trends has become nearly impossible.

Noise exists to solve this. We measure attention across the internet and allow people to trade on its future. The result is real-time markets on how brands, narratives, and ideas rise and fall. If we succeed, Noise becomes the standard for measuring attention and a new way to reveal what truly matters in the world.

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A little bit about our team:

• Eight full-time employees based in the US

• Fully in-person in NYC

• Everyone either ships code, designs, or talks to users

• Build in the Unknown: We have no interest in iterating on what already exists. Our goal is to create a new type of consumer experience centered on invention, not optimization.

• Seek Truth Rapidly: We consider it a mistake to linger in speculation. We test, learn from feedback, and move forward with speed and clarity.

• No Passengers: Everyone at Noise — engineers, designers, marketers — is in the room, in New York City. We’re a small team moving fast with care and intensity. We solve hard problems together. You do not need permission to try new things.

• Action Your Taste: Our work carries the imprint of everyone who builds it.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Backend & Systems at Noise. You’re a generalist at heart but specialize in backend: designing and building large-scale, distributed, real-time systems, APIs, and data pipelines. You’ll shape architecture decisions, move fast from prototype to production, and own your systems end to end — there’s no handoff here.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build backend services and APIs able to handle large-scale traffic and real-time data.

• Design distributed systems: microservices, message queues, caching, orchestration, Kubernetes & cloud infrastructure.

• Ensure system scale, performance, reliability, security and observability (monitoring, logging, alerting).

• Collaborate across product, front-end and infrastructure teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.

• Define and drive best practices for code quality, deployment, infrastructure and system operations

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend (or full-stack) development building production services in modern server-side languages (Go, Rust, Java, Python, etc.).

• Proven experience designing, shipping and operating backend systems at scale.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, performance optimization, reliability, and cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent).

• Solid experience working with Kubernetes (K8s), container orchestration, service deployments and infrastructure as code.

• Strong ownership mindset: from concept → production → maintenance, you can own features and systems end-to-end.

• Bonus: Open‐source contributions or active community involvement

Our Tech Stack

• Design: Figma, Adobe

• Frontend (web): React (Typescript), Vite, TailwindCSS

• Backend: Rust, Java, Typescript

• Research: Python, Pytorch

• Infrastructure: AWS, Cloudflare

• Smart Contracts: Solidity, Foundry, Slither

How Applying Works

1. Intro Call — 30 minutes to review your relevant experience

2. Behavioral Call — 45 minutes to learn more about you

3. Paid Work Trial — 3-5 days work trial with the team (in-office)

4. Reference Checks — Provide 2-3 prior supervisors

5. Comp Review — 30 minutes with one of the founders to discuss offer

Compensation

To attract the best people, our goal is to provide competitive cash compensation and high upside in the long-term success of Noise. Equity options are subject to the same four-year schedule as the rest of the team.