Senior Backend Engineer - Growth

About the role

ABOUT ATTICUS

At any given time, 16 million Americans are experiencing a crisis that requires urgent help from our legal system or government. The right assistance could transform their lives. But today, most never get it.

Atticus makes it easy for any sick or injured American to get life-changing aid. Our mission is to tear down barriers between people in crisis and the aid they deserve. In the last six years, we’ve become the leading platform connecting people with disabilities to government benefits.

We also help victims of accidents, misconduct, and violence get compensation from insurance. So far, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of people access over $10 billion in life-changing aid —and earned over 20,000 five-star reviews. And we’re just getting started.

We've raised more than $100 million from top VC firms like Fika, Forerunner, Google Ventures, and True Ventures, and we’re on our way to creating a category defining business assisting needy Americans.

THE JOB

The Growth Pod at Atticus is the connective tissue between our marketing, product, and data layers. We run fast, experiment constantly, and take our results seriously. We're looking for a backend or backend-leaning product engineer who thrives in that environment — someone who can move with urgency during experimentation without leaving a mess behind.

This role is less about building polished product surfaces and more about owning the systems that makes Growth function: getting the right data between the right systems at the right time. Think experimentation infrastructure, marketing data pipelines, automated comms, and user identity. If you've done this kind of work and want to go deeper on it, this is the right place.

You'll also be a core thought partner to product & design — helping turn ambiguous Growth hypotheses into clear, scoped work that we can ship quickly and test rigorously.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own and evolve our data integration infrastructure — data infrastructure, marketing enablement, customer communication tools, and experimentation data flows

- Build the connective tissue between Growth's external tools and internal systems

- Partner closely with the broader Growth team to translate fast-moving priorities into well-scoped, executable engineering work

- Balance velocity with system health — make deliberate tradeoffs and document your reasoning

- Work across our full product stack as needed; this is a backend-focused role but we deeply value a generalist product engineering mindset

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Required:

- 5+ years of production software experience, with meaningful time in a startup or high-ownership environment

- Data & experimentation infrastructure experience — and a genuine interest in going deeper on this skillset

- Demonstrated ability to weigh technical tradeoffs between velocity and system health and make a defensible call

- Experience translating ambiguous product requirements into scoped, well-defined work units — you're allergic to silos and knowledge hoarding

- History of working closely with a strong PM on a user-facing team; you think about the end user, not just the implementation

- An understanding of the highly iterative nature of Growth/top-of-funnel work — willingness to abandon unsuccessful experiments

Bonus / Nice-to-Have:

- Previous experience on a Growth or marketing-adjacent engineering team

- Familiarity with Go, GCP, Kubernetes, or Terraform

- Experience with Salesforce data pipelines or CRM integrations

- Background in legal, healthcare, or financial services

SALARY AND BENEFITS

This is a rare opportunity to join a startup that has strong traction (substantial funding, well-respected backers, tremendous growth, and many happy customers) but is still small enough that you can have a huge impact and play a role in shaping our culture.

We’re a certified B Corporation tackling a critical social problem. Our mission to help people in need drives everything we do, and your work here will touch many lives.

We offer competitive pay — including equity for all employees — and generous benefits:

- Medical and dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for employees and their families

- 15 vacation days & ~20 paid holidays each year (including two weeks at the end-of-year)

- Free membership to OneMedical

- $600/year internet stipend

- $1,000/year reimbursable stipend for education and training outside of work

- Up to $1,200/year student loan repayment assistance

- 401(k) and optional HSA/FSA

- Humble, thoughtful, smart, fun colleagues

We anticipate the base salary band for this role will be between $157,250 and $230,000 in addition to equity and benefits. The salary at offer will be determined by a number of factors such as candidate’s experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team.

LOCATION

This job is fully remote and we’re committed to empowering everyone with flexibility. Work remotely, and travel to LA (on the company dime) as needed to be with your colleagues —somewhere between quarterly and yearly. We care a lot about building a great culture and we think some interactions need to happen in person, so we put a lot of thought into retreats, offsites, and other ways to gather.