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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer - **Company:** BUSINESS RATE, LLC - **Location:** Tempe, AZ, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $170,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Query Performance, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Big Data, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Database Design, PostgreSQL, Node.Js, Query Optimization, Next.js, Software Deployment, TypeScript, Web Applications, ReactJS, Delivery Pipeline, Indexer, Backend, Build Management, Stripe, Software Coding, Data Pipelines, Docker - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=77a72decac97c713 ## About the Role You should have: - Experience building and supporting production TypeScript and Node.js applications - Strong PostgreSQL skills - schema design, indexing, and query optimization against large datasets - Experience building substantial frontends with React, ideally Next.js - Experience reviewing other engineers' code and helping them improve - Comfort with AI-assisted development tools alongside solid engineering practices - we use them regularly and expect the same care with code written that way - The ability to work through tradeoffs and make decisions with limited direction Nice to have: - tRPC, Fastify, or similar typed API layers - Docker and modern deployment pipelines (we use Render) - Stripe or other payments experience - Experience with data pipelines and ETL at scale - Having been the senior engineer on a small team before ## Description BusinessRate turns public customer reviews into scores and rankings for local businesses. We collect review data at scale, score each business, rank it against its local competitors, and recognize the top performers in their market. We're profitable and growing, with an engineering team of four. Everything - the data pipelines, the web applications, the payment flows, the internal tooling, the infrastructure - is built and maintained in house. The role You'd be writing code day to day, and also helping guide the work of two or three less experienced developers. Reviewing their pull requests and helping raise the quality of what we ship together is a real part of the job, and we're looking for someone who enjoys that side of it as well as the building. Because the team is small, you'd work across the whole product rather than one corner of it. The data side is genuinely complex - large partitioned tables, queries that need to stay fast as volumes grow, and pipelines processing substantial amounts of data on an ongoing basis. There's also a customer-facing web application, payment flows, and internal dashboards, all of which need to be reliable. What you'll do - Design and build backend services and APIs that handle large-scale data processing, keeping results accurate and fast as volumes grow - Work on database design and query performance across large, partitioned datasets - a lot of our most interesting problems live here - Build and improve customer-facing web applications and internal dashboards using Next.js and tRPC - Help keep our checkout and payment flows reliable - Review pull requests and help raise the standard of what the team ships - Take projects from an initial idea through to production - Improve our architecture, deployment process, and development workflows ## Related Videos - [Navigating Growth, Scaling Challenges, and Office Expansions with David Singleton, CTO at Stripe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100362-navigating-growth-scaling-challenges-and-office-expansions-with-david-singleton-cto-at-stripe) - [Build and Deploy a Fullstack App with Open Source Tooling](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/775-build-and-deploy-a-fullstack-app-with-open-source-tooling) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Meet Your New BFF: Backend to Frontend without the Duct Tape](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/682-meet-your-new-bff-backend-to-frontend-without-the-duct-tape) - [Nest.js - TypeScript in the backend can also be clean](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1033-nest-js-typescript-in-the-backend-can-also-be-clean) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [React Developer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/198-react-developer-salary-2023) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 159: AI Pipelines, 10x Faster TypeScript, How to Interview](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/563-dev-digest-159-ai-pipelines-10x-faster-typescript-how-to-interview) - [The 7 Most Popular Backend Frameworks for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/403-the-7-most-popular-backend-frameworks-for-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs)