Senior Backend Engineer

About the Role

Industrious's Growth Engineering team owns every customer-facing surface we build: the member portal, the mobile app, the public site, for a member base growing alongside 100+ new locations this year. This Senior Backend Engineer seat is backend-leaning, genuinely full-stack, and comes with early access to the decisions that shape what gets built, not just how. You'll own production systems real members rely on every day, and design real AI agentic systems, agents, MCP servers, and the guardrails that keep them safe in production, not just use AI coding tools day to day.

You'll join a team of five to six, reporting to our Growth Engineering Manager. Code ships often here, you'll see the result of your work in the product within days, not quarters, at a company that's profitable, CBRE-backed, and still scaling fast.

What You Will Own

• Build and operate the backend services (Node.js, TypeScript, Kafka, MongoDB) powering the systems thousands of members use every day.
• Drive the expansion of our member credit system so members can book new locations, and lead the reservation-experience redesign in our newest member portal.
• Own reservation-based access: the system that gets a member into the exact room and location tied to their on-demand booking.
• Push our site's performance and reliability forward for our members as an ongoing discipline, not a side project.
• Ship across the stack, backend, frontend (React, Next.js), and occasionally mobile (React Native, Expo), so the team is never blocked by a single layer.
• Design and build AI agentic systems, agents, MCP servers, and the guardrails that keep them safe, as we integrate intelligent features directly into our core platforms.
• Help the team get sharper with AI-assisted engineering as we build that muscle together.

What We Are Looking For

• A real track record shipping and running production backend services in Node.js and TypeScript, including event-driven systems (we lean on Kafka).
• Hands-on experience designing and building AI agentic systems (AI agents, e.g. LangChain or ADK, MCP servers, production AI guardrails and monitoring), not just day-to-day use of AI coding tools.
• Genuine full-stack range: you've shipped production React work too, and you're glad to pick up mobile (React Native, Expo) when it's needed, not just backend.
• Comfortable with NoSQL data (we run MongoDB), and with picking up ambiguous problems and driving them to a working solution.
• Nice to have: Next.js experience.