Company And Culture
Complex is the definitive platform for global youth culture and music lifestyle, seamlessly integrating cutting-edge content, commerce and live experiences with unparalleled scale. Through innovative content, Complex tells stories of music, streetwear and style, sports, art and beyond. Its content engages in a dynamic conversation with the audience, reflecting and shaping the zeitgeist of convergence culture. A powerful media juggernaut paired with a curated marketplace, Complex is redefining the way fans interact with their favorite brands and artists and reshaping the future of digital culture and commerce.
Why We're Hiring
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Complex, you’ll play a key role in scaling our commerce and content platforms to serve millions of customers. Working within a domain-focused team, you’ll lead backend initiatives that drive high performance, reliability, and extensibility across our systems. Applicants must be able and willing to work on-site in Los Angeles, CA or New York, NY office.
What You'll Do
Architect, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js, Go, and AWS infrastructure
Design and document service contracts that integrate commerce, content, personalization, and user systems
Collaborate closely with frontend, mobile, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver well-integrated features
Contribute to our shift toward a modular, event-driven architecture using message queues (Kafka, etc.)
Drive initiatives to improve performance, availability, and fault tolerance in high-traffic services
Write robust tests and implement monitoring and alerting to support operational excellence
Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and post-release reviews, bringing a backend perspective to product development
Triage and resolve production issues, participate in root cause analysis, and improve system observability
Contribute to documentation, tooling, and development workflows that improve backend team velocity and quality
Who You Are
5+ years of backend development experience in production systems
Proficiency in Node.js and/or Go
Experience designing RESTful or GraphQL APIs
Strong grasp of system design, testing, and debugging in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar container orchestration tools
Preferred:
Experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
Prior work integrating with Shopify or other headless commerce platforms
Exposure to observability tooling and performance optimization
Experience mentoring other engineers or leading technical initiatives
What We Offer
Best in class health, dental, and vision insurance
Healthcare FSA
Dependent Care FSA
Commuter Benefits FSA
Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance
Paid Parental leave
401k with 4% match
Pet Insurance
Legal and Identity Theft Plans
Vacation time and sick days
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some incumbents assigned to the job to perform a different combination of duties.
Complex participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for visa sponsorship.
