# Software Engineer, Backend — Dots

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: New York City
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $347K – $385K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## Compensation

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

- Relocation support for eligible employees

- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

## About the Role

Dots is looking for a Backend Engineer to build the systems that power our product. You’ll work closely with product, design, and engineering to turn ideas into reliable services and deliver features from design through production.

## Responsibilities

- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs.

- Develop data models and improve database performance.

- Build integrations with third-party services.

- Improve system reliability, security, and observability.

- Write tested, maintainable code and participate in code reviews.

- Investigate production issues and address their root causes.

- Help shape technical decisions as the product grows.

## Requirements

- Experience building and operating backend applications in production.

- Strong proficiency in a backend programming language.

- Solid understanding of API design, relational databases, and data modeling.

- Experience with cloud infrastructure, automated testing, and deployment workflows.

- Ability to balance speed with quality and make practical technical decisions.

- Clear communication and a collaborative approach to solving problems.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with distributed systems, background jobs, and event-driven architectures.

- Familiarity with caching, queues, and performance optimization.

- Experience working on a small team or an early-stage product.

## Skills

### Required
- backend applications
- API design
- relational databases
- data modeling
- cloud infrastructure
- automated testing
- deployment workflows

### Nice to have
- distributed systems
- background jobs
- event-driven architectures
- caching
- queues
- performance optimization

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