Backend Engineer

Techstars is hiring a Backend Engineer to support Techstars OS, the platform used to run accelerators, support founders, and inform investment decisions. The role focuses on data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, database systems, and reliable integrations across teams. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that ingest, transform, and serve data across Techstars systems — including Salesforce, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and internal APIsOwn and evolve our Kubernetes-based infrastructure (Helm, OpenTofu, Github Actions), including deployment tooling, secrets management, and cluster healthPartner with our senior security engineer on infrastructure reliability — incident response, observability, and proactive improvements to keep things stableMaintain and improve our PostgreSQL database layer: schema design, migrations, query performance, and data integritySupport Salesforce data flows and integrations with our broader platformBuild and maintain internal tooling and integrati