Staff Software Engineer-Backend

Cameo, US- Downtown Chicago HQ

The role

At Cameo, we make impossible connections possible. Our platform allows fans to get personalized messages from their favorite comedians, actors, athletes, and more.... not gonna lie, it’s pretty magical. And now we’re looking for passionate, hardworking humans to help take Cameo to the next level.

🚀 Our #Fameo means everything to us. Join a stellar team of smart, curious, and driven individuals, and experience working at a globally known consumer startup.

📈 Best in class. We’ve been named one of LinkedIn’s Top 50 Startups to Work For, voted one of America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes, and the #1 Most Innovative Social Media Company by Fast Company.

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Staff Software Engineer-Backend

Cameo, US- Downtown Chicago HQ

Posted pay

$175K–$215K

a year

Compared with similar jobs

This base pay is below the median for staff software engineering jobs in other US places.

Median: $221K a year
Other jobs in the group: 486

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Location: US- Downtown Chicago HQ
Work type: Not given
Level: Staff
Experience: 10+ years
Skills in the job text: AWS
Node.js
Kafka
MongoDB
Posted: Jun 4, 2026
Last check: 11 min ago
Job type: Software engineering

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About Cameo: funding, hiring and pay

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Company facts

Money raised: $162MSum of funding rounds on record
Newest round: Series CMar 30, 2021

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The role

🚀 Our #Fameo means everything to us. Join a stellar team of smart, curious, and driven individuals, and experience working at a globally known consumer startup.

What you need

10+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in node.js (express, async patterns, etc.)
A track record of designing and operating distributed systems serving millions of users in production
Expert-level data modeling with NoSQL (Mongo), and good judgment on when relational or other stores fit better
Experience designing event-driven and streaming architectures (Kafka/Confluent, queues, pub/sub)
You've built and owned high-throughput, low-latency REST (and/or async) APIs as long-lived platforms, not one-offs
Security-minded across authn/authz, data protection, and supply-chain risk
Strong cloud-native chops on AWS
AI fluency: you use agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) to multiply your output, and you help set the standards for how the team builds with AI; including designing agentic and AI-powered systems into the platform
You set technical direction across teams and mentor engineers, leading through influence rather than authority
You have a strong product sense and connect technical decisions to real user and business impact
You're a doer who thrives in ambiguity and brings others along with you
You love building and scaling, and you raise the bar for everyone around you

The salary range for this position is $175,000 to $215,000 with opportunities for additional compensation based on performance. Cameo determines salary ranges by role and level with ranges for US roles typically based on our home market of Chicago. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within that range, individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and training. Posted salary ranges reflect base salary only, exclusive of equity, commissions, and other compensation and benefits.

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