Senior Backend/DevOps Engineer

About Keeper

Bookkeepers today are stuck working in excel spreadsheets and homegrown project management solutions to support their clients. Keeper is on a mission to change that.

With our all-in-one tool, bookkeepers can manage their work, communicate with clients, catch hard-to-find errors, and deliver reports to help their small business customers make smarter strategic decisions.

Founded in 2021, Keeper has raised $6M in seed funding, backed by leading tech investors like Y Combinator and founders at top startups like Lattice, Front, Superhuman, Plaid, and more. Keeper currently helps thousands of bookkeepers and accountants manage the books for startups and small businesses across the US.

Our Team:

What You'll Do

• Ship software on a weekly basis and code a lot of TypeScript.

• You’ll play a key role in shaping our architecture, improving developer experience, and ensuring the scalability and reliability of our systems.

• Contribute to the development and improvement of our APIs and services. You’ll also have the opportunity to refactor and modernize legacy code.

• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on GitHub Actions and automation best practices.

• Our RDS database is a critical part of our infrastructure. You’ll be responsible for optimizing performance and managing complex JSONB columns, including normalization and efficient querying.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience architecting and building backend systems with Node.js and TypeScript.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, with a proven track record of designing and operating cloud-native architectures.

• Strong experience creating and managing CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions.

• A proactive mindset with a passion for clean code, automation, and system reliability.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to mentor others and lead by example.

Stack

• Back-end: Node.js + Express (Typescript), TypeORM

• Infra: We use AWS services: RDS, Aurora, Lambda, EC2, S3

• Front-end: React + Redux (Typescript)

Benefits

• Competitive pay and equity

• Unlimited PTO

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

Keeper provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.