GoGoGrandparent
A concierge service for seniors’ rides, meals, meds, home and more.
Backend Engineer
About the role
About the Company
GoGoGrandparent’s (GoGo’s) mission is to help older adults live independently in their home for as long as possible. We do that by tailoring existing on demand apps to the needs of people living with mobility, visual, cognitive and dexterity impairments and letting older adults use them by making a phone call. After ordering, our service becomes a virtual caregiver that monitors the instrumental activities of daily living (mobility, meals, groceries, medication delivery & home management) for tens of thousands of older adults around the United States. We’re profitable, have been around since 2016 & haven’t raised any venture capital financing to date. The company was inspired by the cofounder’s grandmother, who still uses us to this day (she’s turning 95 in March)!
Our engineering team is fully remote, tight-knit, and moves fast. You’ll work closely with founders, ship meaningful features weekly, and have real ownership over architecture, reliability, and product direction.
This is a fully remote position
Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with strong expertise in Node.js / Typescript to design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems. This role is responsible for delivering high-quality features end-to-end, collaborating closely with product and project managers, and continuously improving the codebase through thoughtful refactoring.
The ideal candidate takes ownership of their work, writes clean and maintainable code, and contributes to system architecture decisions. They will work across the full development lifecycle—from planning and implementation to testing, deployment, and monitoring—while ensuring reliability and performance in production.
In addition to execution, this role involves improving engineering processes, reviewing code, mentoring other developers, and helping drive technical standards across the team.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deliver backend features using Node.js / Typescript, ensuring high performance and scalability
- Collaborate with product and project managers to clarify requirements and translate them into technical solutions
- Own tasks end-to-end, from implementation through testing, deployment, and monitoring
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve bugs and production issues in a timely manner
- Continuously refactor and improve existing code to enhance maintainability, performance, and reliability
- Review pull requests, provide constructive feedback, and uphold code quality and engineering standards
- Write clean, well-documented, and testable code following best practices
- Participate in system design and architecture discussions, contributing to long-term technical decisions
- Monitor system performance and proactively address bottlenecks or reliability issues
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (frontend, QA, DevOps) to ensure smooth delivery of features
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to improving team processes and development workflows
Tech Stack
- Back-end heavy: Node.js, TypeScript, MySQL, REST + GraphQL
- Front-end: Vue.js (nice to have)
- Deployment: AWS, Docker/Kubernetes (nice to have)
Skills & Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional experience (primarily in Node.js and Vue.js)
- Able to work US timezone or 4+ hours overlap with mainland US
- Able to take ownership and initiative on features / problems
Benefits
- Fully remote position
- $80k – $180k (based on location, experience and seniority)
- There is a significant quarterly bonus tied to meeting sprint goals
- Paid holidays
- Personal Time-off of 15 days at start
- Engineering team retreat
- US Employees
- Healthcare Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- 401k Plan
If you're passionate about improving the lives of older adults and people with disabilities, we would love for you to apply!
About the interview
2-stage interview process
About GoGoGrandparent
We built GoGo for our own grandparents and were amazed to see it grow to touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of seniors across the United States and Canada. What shocked us then and it still does now, is that between 30 - 40% of our new signups have smartphones. We didn’t understand why. When we called and asked a few, they told us that Uber and Lyft had 'stopped working' for them.
After puzzling over that for months, we realized what the problem was.
Managing transportation - on Lyft, Uber, cab companies, etc is not easy. It’s a ‘self-serve’ experience. The ride requester has to be aware of things like the driver cancelling, getting lost, the driver arriving, the driver not-quite-being-lost-just-down-the-street-a-couple-houses.
Then add the complexities of smartphones: the user has to be on top of updating their own credit card - making sure the pickup pin is in the correct spot - typing in both where they are and where they’re going. All in all, there are about a dozen online and offline "micro steps" ride requesters have to take to get a ride. And god help anyone who needs to remember their Apple iCloud password to update an app.
We didn't know this when we started, but it turns out that ordering and managing a ride gets more difficult the older you get, almost in the same way that driving a car gets more difficult the older you get.
What gets us excited now (and what we’re hiring for) is that technically this ‘self-management problem’ doesn’t just stop at rides. There are lots of things that get harder to do as you age. People have known this for a long time and that’s inspired a lot of the solutions that older adults currently have.
Based a lot on the experiences we’ve had so far, we believe that by becoming the ‘management layer’ for the things that older adults struggle with as they age we have a better chance to offer older citizens independence without having to ask them to move out of their homes.
Within the next ten years the number of people over the age of 65 will be larger than the number of people under 18 for the first time in history. 11,000,000 people over the age of 75 will stop driving due to age related cognitive or physical decline. When they stop driving, they’ll be forced to rely on friends and family, live in a community, or have caregivers. GoGo is working to make sure that losing your youth doesn’t mean losing your independence.
Joining us at this time is a really exciting opportunity for folks looking to make meaningful impact on people’s lives. We’re a small team that’s built a profitable and fast-growing business over the last three years. Now we’re looking for partners to join us as we make GoGo a household name.
Anyone joining GoGo at this phase of the company will have a huge and life changing level of impact on a size-able and growing user base. We want people to have rich and meaningful lives at any age. We’re bringing people freedom and hope, one life at a time.
