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Annual Bonus and Stock options Direct message the job poster from On Me Location: San Francisco, CA or New York, NY Salary Range: $135,000 - $175,000, meaningful early employee equity About On Me Gifting Gifting is hard in the modern age. Gift cards are everywhere, but they’re often impersonal, cumbersome, and stuck in the past. At On Me, we’re a tiny team of former Google and Apple employees on a mission to change that. With $1.7M raised from top-tier VCs like Lerer Hippeau, Focal.VC, and Mastercard, we’re bringing a fresh approach to the $305 billion gift card market. Our product lets you create personalized digital gifts for various hobbies and interests, redeemable across multiple brands and easily added to your mobile wallet. Check it out at onme.com! Since our November 2024 Launch, On Me has been growing rapidly. Featured in Fortune, Axios, and The Wall Street Journal, our users keep coming back for more. Gifting with On Me isn’t just convenient, it’s a shareable experience people love. So far in 2025, we’ve had over 40% month over month growth, every month! We’re at the start of a hockey-stick growth curve, and we need a talented engineer to help build out our infrastructure for massive scale. In 2026, we’ll be refining our gifting experience to create an even more magical moments for our users. We’re also seeing rising demand from corporate clients and need someone to help build out the tools to meet this incoming need. Job Summary As a software engineer, you’ll work closely with our engineering team to design and scale the backend systems that power our gifting platform. You’ll be responsible for building resilient services, optimizing databases, and developingdistributed infrastructure capable of handling millions of dollars in transactions across our stack of servers, APIs, and applications. Your work will include architecting systems for high availability, performance, and security, while ensuring seamless integrations across consumer and corporate gifting experiences. You’ll have end-to-end ownership of critical backend components, driving both product and engineering decisions that shape the future of digital gifting. Additionally, you’ll help scale our B2B bulk gifting solutions, enabling robust, enterprise-ready systems to support our corporate partners at scale. And finally, as we’re a small startup, you’ll have the opportunity to wear multiple hats. Key Responsibilities • Design, implement, and scale backend services that power the gifting platform. • Build and optimize data models and queries to ensure high performance and reliability. • Develop and maintain APIs to support web, mobile, and external integrations. • Ensure system reliability, availability, and security across distributed services. • Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting to maintain system health and performance. • Collaborate with the rest of the team to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences. • Support the growth of the corporate gifting program by building bulk gifting workflows and enterprise-ready integrations. • Drive architectural decisions to support scaling to millions of transactions. • Implement full stack features across our web platform and backend Requirements • 5+ years of experience as a backend or full-stack engineer. • Strong understanding of backend fundamentals: data modeling, systems design, and distributed systems concepts. • Experience designing and building APIs (REST or GraphQL). • Knowledge of TypeScript and modern Node.js tooling. • Familiarity with databases (NoSQL especially) and performance optimization. • Knowledge of scalability, caching, and fault tolerance patterns. • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability tools. • Ability to take ownership of projects from concept through production. • Strong communication and collaboration skills in a fast-paced startup environment. • Experience with Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Firestore, BigQuery) • Familiarity with Next.js and modern frontend stacks. • Experience working with payments, financial transactions, or high-value data systems. • Experience with data science and analytics on large data sets • Background in scaling systems that process millions of transactions. What We Offer • A competitive salary and meaningful early employee equity. • A dynamic, collaborative, and inclusive work culture. We work in a hybrid Startup/Google/Apple style. • The opportunity to deeply shape the company’s tech stack and engineering culture. • An office in SF FiDi with the option to work remotely 2 days a week, or remote work from NYC. • A fantastic gym at the office, with showers, towels, toothbrushes, etc. • Unlimited paid time off. • Medical, dental, and vision insurance. Who You’ll Work With At On Me, you’ll join a small, elite team of builders from Google and Apple who move fast and care deeply about product quality. You’ll collaborate daily with: • Darragh Meaney, CEO — Google Ads and YouTube • Sitar Harel, CTO — Google Maps and Google Photos • Daniel Li, Founding Engineer — ex-Apple, WWDC session speaker and Cornell AppDev alum • Neil Shankar, Founding Designer — previously Senior Designer at Google and Block (formerly Square) • Anthony Bisagno, Head of Partnerships — ex-Apple and BlackHawk We combine big-tech craft with startup speed—and we’re just getting started. Join Us Become a part of On Me’s story, and play an integral role in our journey to strengthen relationships through magical gifting experiences. If you're ready to contribute to a team that values ambition, collaboration, and the joy of tackling exciting challenges, we’d love to hear from you. Seniority level
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On Me Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. This range is provided by On Me. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range
$135,000.00/yr - $175,000.00/yr Additional compensation types
Annual Bonus and Stock options Direct message the job poster from On Me Location: San Francisco, CA or New York, NY Salary Range: $135,000 - $175,000, meaningful early employee equity About On Me Gifting Gifting is hard in the modern age. Gift cards are everywhere, but they’re often impersonal, cumbersome, and stuck in the past. At On Me, we’re a tiny team of former Google and Apple employees on a mission to change that. With $1.7M raised from top-tier VCs like Lerer Hippeau, Focal.VC, and Mastercard, we’re bringing a fresh approach to the $305 billion gift card market. Our product lets you create personalized digital gifts for various hobbies and interests, redeemable across multiple brands and easily added to your mobile wallet. Check it out at onme.com! Since our November 2024 Launch, On Me has been growing rapidly. Featured in Fortune, Axios, and The Wall Street Journal, our users keep coming back for more. Gifting with On Me isn’t just convenient, it’s a shareable experience people love. So far in 2025, we’ve had over 40% month over month growth, every month! We’re at the start of a hockey-stick growth curve, and we need a talented engineer to help build out our infrastructure for massive scale. In 2026, we’ll be refining our gifting experience to create an even more magical moments for our users. We’re also seeing rising demand from corporate clients and need someone to help build out the tools to meet this incoming need. Job Summary As a software engineer, you’ll work closely with our engineering team to design and scale the backend systems that power our gifting platform. You’ll be responsible for building resilient services, optimizing databases, and developingdistributed infrastructure capable of handling millions of dollars in transactions across our stack of servers, APIs, and applications. Your work will include architecting systems for high availability, performance, and security, while ensuring seamless integrations across consumer and corporate gifting experiences. You’ll have end-to-end ownership of critical backend components, driving both product and engineering decisions that shape the future of digital gifting. Additionally, you’ll help scale our B2B bulk gifting solutions, enabling robust, enterprise-ready systems to support our corporate partners at scale. And finally, as we’re a small startup, you’ll have the opportunity to wear multiple hats. Key Responsibilities • Design, implement, and scale backend services that power the gifting platform. • Build and optimize data models and queries to ensure high performance and reliability. • Develop and maintain APIs to support web, mobile, and external integrations. • Ensure system reliability, availability, and security across distributed services. • Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting to maintain system health and performance. • Collaborate with the rest of the team to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences. • Support the growth of the corporate gifting program by building bulk gifting workflows and enterprise-ready integrations. • Drive architectural decisions to support scaling to millions of transactions. • Implement full stack features across our web platform and backend Requirements • 5+ years of experience as a backend or full-stack engineer. • Strong understanding of backend fundamentals: data modeling, systems design, and distributed systems concepts. • Experience designing and building APIs (REST or GraphQL). • Knowledge of TypeScript and modern Node.js tooling. • Familiarity with databases (NoSQL especially) and performance optimization. • Knowledge of scalability, caching, and fault tolerance patterns. • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and observability tools. • Ability to take ownership of projects from concept through production. • Strong communication and collaboration skills in a fast-paced startup environment. • Experience with Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Firestore, BigQuery) • Familiarity with Next.js and modern frontend stacks. • Experience working with payments, financial transactions, or high-value data systems. • Experience with data science and analytics on large data sets • Background in scaling systems that process millions of transactions. What We Offer • A competitive salary and meaningful early employee equity. • A dynamic, collaborative, and inclusive work culture. We work in a hybrid Startup/Google/Apple style. • The opportunity to deeply shape the company’s tech stack and engineering culture. • An office in SF FiDi with the option to work remotely 2 days a week, or remote work from NYC. • A fantastic gym at the office, with showers, towels, toothbrushes, etc. • Unlimited paid time off. • Medical, dental, and vision insurance. Who You’ll Work With At On Me, you’ll join a small, elite team of builders from Google and Apple who move fast and care deeply about product quality. You’ll collaborate daily with: • Darragh Meaney, CEO — Google Ads and YouTube • Sitar Harel, CTO — Google Maps and Google Photos • Daniel Li, Founding Engineer — ex-Apple, WWDC session speaker and Cornell AppDev alum • Neil Shankar, Founding Designer — previously Senior Designer at Google and Block (formerly Square) • Anthony Bisagno, Head of Partnerships — ex-Apple and BlackHawk We combine big-tech craft with startup speed—and we’re just getting started. Join Us Become a part of On Me’s story, and play an integral role in our journey to strengthen relationships through magical gifting experiences. If you're ready to contribute to a team that values ambition, collaboration, and the joy of tackling exciting challenges, we’d love to hear from you. Seniority level
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