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Backend Engineer

Core backend ownership with a strong bias toward reliability and clear service boundaries.

human
pilot
human
Mid
Aliases
4
Sources
1
Neighbors
5

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Node profile

Humans decide architecture and risk. Agents draft tests, summarize incidents, and propose refactors.

Role frame
Build stable application and service layers that other teams can depend on.
Obligations
Own service correctness
Design durable APIs
Coordinate with product and infra on delivery
Tasks
Implement service endpoints
Profile latency and reliability
Review data contracts
Handle incident follow-up
Skills
API design
Distributed systems
Testing
Observability
Tools
TypeScript
Postgres
OpenAPI
Tracing dashboards
Prerequisites
Programming fundamentals
SQL fluency
Agent eligible
Drafting endpoint specs
Summarizing logs
Generating tests
Human gated
On-call tradeoffs
Release approvals for risky migrations
Comparison

Backend Engineer vs Forward Deployed Engineer

A seam role that lives where technical product and customer delivery overlap.

Kind
human vs hybrid
Seniority
Mid vs Senior
Demand
395 vs 388
Space
pilot-space:technology → pilot-space:forward-deployed
Neighbors in common
2
Shared tools
0
Compare is meant to answer one question: what changes when I move from one node to the other?
Backend Engineer only skills
API design
Distributed systems
Testing
Observability
Forward Deployed Engineer only skills
Deployment engineering
Customer empathy
Debugging
Coordination
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