PlusMinusOne is a mobile startup studio that focuses on developing and marketing its own apps that are used and loved by millions of people around the world. Our products collectively reach more than a half-million new users every month in the US market alone. Our team works in hybrid model with offices in San Francisco and Istanbul.
We have been building mobile products focused on Business, Photo & Video, and Education categories in the App Store mainly for the US market since 2016. And in each of these categories, our goal is the same: provide actual value to people with the best mobile user experience.
We’re in an exciting period of growth and are looking for Backend Developer who will help us shape the future of mobile.
What we are looking for:
- 3+ years building production backend services with Node.js / TypeScript (NestJS is a plus)
- Solid experience with PostgreSQL and Redis — schema design, indexing, query performance
- Experience designing and building REST APIs
- Comfortable with Docker and containerized deployments; hands-on Kubernetes experience is a strong plus
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and designing CI/CD pipelines
- Working knowledge of AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager)
- Able to debug real problems from logs and metrics (Prometheus / Grafana)
- Strong grasp of clean architecture and fundamental design principles for scalable systems
- Strong analytical and time management skills, and a track record of working well in an agile team
- Product-minded: you care about the user impact of what you ship, and you're comfortable pushing back on requirements when something doesn't make sense
Great bonus if you have:
- Event streaming and data pipelines: Kafka, CDC (Debezium), ClickHouse or BigQuery
- GitOps with ArgoCD, autoscaling with Karpenter / KEDA
- Integrating LLM APIs into real products (RAG, evaluation, cost/latency trade-offs)
- Python for tooling and data work
Your responsibilities will be:
- Building backend services for our mobile and web products from the ground up
- Designing and refining integrations between our applications and third-party services
- Deploying and operating services on Kubernetes — scaling, tuning and keeping them healthy in production
- Owning what you ship: monitoring, alerting and debugging your services in production
- Working with our event and data pipelines that power product analytics
- Bringing new technology and ideas to the table
- Influencing cross-team initiatives and mentoring mid-level and junior backend engineers
- Participating in planning, estimating tasks, reviewing code and pairing with teammates
What we offer:
- Opportunity to make an impact on millions of global users' life and the future of mobile
- Chance to be a part of a passionate and driven team where everyone’s ideas are valued
- A hybrid work environment with 3 days a week at the Kabataş Istanbul office
- Extra 5 days of PM1 paid vacation from the first year, increasing with seniority
- Performance-based bonus paid twice a year
- Ability to own a stock option after the first year
- Private health insurance package
- Lunch and transportation allowance
- Reimbursement package for any education, course, sports activities, hobbies, etc.
- A Macbook, iPhone, magic mouse, magic keyboard, and any other hardware that you need to deliver your best work.
Let's shape the future of mobile together!
Skills Required
- 3+ years building production backend services with Node.js and TypeScript
- Experience with PostgreSQL and Redis, including schema design, indexing, and query performance
- Experience designing and building REST APIs
- Experience with Docker and containerized deployments
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CI/CD pipeline design
- Working knowledge of AWS, including EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, and Secrets Manager
- Ability to debug production issues using logs and metrics
- Understanding of clean architecture and scalable system design principles
- Strong analytical and time management skills
- Experience working effectively in an agile team
- Product-minded approach and willingness to challenge unclear requirements
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience
- Experience with NestJS
- Experience with Kafka, Debezium, ClickHouse, or BigQuery
- Experience with ArgoCD, Karpenter, or KEDA
- Experience integrating LLM APIs, including RAG and evaluation
- Python experience for tooling and data work
What We Do
PlusMinusOne is a mobile product studio that focuses on building tomorrow's leading mobile products. We are a group of extremely talented product designers, growth marketers, software engineers, and data nerds who are dreaming of shaping the future of mobile. If you are passionate about learning and building new apps that impact millions' life, then we'd like to meet you.
