Interface
About Us
Mission
We believe generative AI's true potential goes beyond improving interactions between humans and machines; it's set to revolutionize human-to-human communication. We're introducing a smarter way to communicate that will help us tap into our most original creations, together with our people.
Team
Interface, Inc. is founded by the same minds behind Jour, which was acquired by Alan in 2021, and new talents equally committed to our mission. We’re a small team of 30 today.
How We Work
At Interface, we thrive in building beautiful products, used and loved by millions. We design with the user at the forefront - going beyond mere functionality to create magical experiences. We're obsessed with pixel-perfect delivery, high daily usage, and world-class retention. These principles steer our behaviors, decision-making, and set our leadership expectations. In our team, transparent communication, deep ownership, and high velocity are lived values. Joining Heart Hands means becoming part of a track-proven team focused on cutting-edge products, backed by top-tier investors. We offer an ecosystem where you can grow both your individual contribution and strategic thinking.
The Position
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role having complete ownership in the design, development, and implementation of a robust and scalable backend & infrastructure used by our mobile clients, but also in supporting the development of our second brain. You will make a significant impact on shaping the services and features that will bring our product to life and will be used by millions.
What You'll Do
Write simple, high quality code that can easily be understood and leveraged by others
Lead full life cycle design & implementation of product requirements, which includes task break-down, delivering, testing, and maintenance
Collaborate closely with the product and the rest of the engineering team to transform product and feature specifications into a reality (we ship on a daily basis).
Example of Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience
You have strong knowledge, solid understanding, and interest in the following areas:
Minimum 5 years professional experience in a backend language (preferably Golang). Interest in Rust is a plus.
Programming, architecture, database design, and operations skills
Scaling a distributed system & the corresponding constraints and trade-offs of operating at scale
Familiarity designing event-driven architected backend (message queues, event streaming)
Asynchronous processing, concurrency, parallelism
Solid grasp of how gRPC, HTTP, TCP, UDP work ○ Strong believer of CI/CD (Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS Fargate)
Observability tools, monitoring, alerting (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
You’re a self-starter who can quickly roll out quality code and build out simple systems
You have experience working in a fast paced startup environment
You are are excited by the prospect of working on an AI product
You’re humble and biased to action, with a “no task is too small” mindset
You are able to adapt and thrive with an early stage team while navigating the unknown
You think like an owner and can prioritize what’s best for the company
You like to keep things simple and not get too caught up in the weeds
You like to be challenged and see this role as a growth opportunity
Being nice matters to you, and you’re a self-proclaimed champion
The Selection Process
Silver.dev Recruiter Screen
Silver.dev Technical Screen
Cultural Screening with People Lead
Technical Deep Dive Screening with CTO
Take-home Challenge
Take-home Challenge Review Call with Engineering Team
Behavioral Screening with CEO
