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# Senior Backend Engineer, Growth (US) at Nanit

- **Company:** Nanit
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://www.nanit.com/pages/careers?gh_jid=6136191004

## Job description

Nanit is moving families beyond overwhelm by transforming how parents understand their baby's early years. We combine advanced AI, real-world data from billions of sleep hours, and clinical expertise to deliver the clarity and confidence every parent deserves. Trusted by over one million families and backed by $125M in funding, we're building an entirely new category: predictive parenting intelligence.

Here, your work directly impacts millions of families. Our team of scientists, engineers, and parents is small but mighty - we share a mission to make early childhood easier, healthier, and more connected. If you want to work on technology that genuinely matters, join us.

You'll be the founding backend engineer on a new Growth team - a cross-functional squad owning the full customer funnel, from a parent first considering Nanit through purchase, subscription, engagement, and eventually referring to us or buying again. You'll also be the first R&D engineer based at our US site, hybrid, with your manager and the rest of the team in a different time zone - so you'll need to hold context, make decisions, unblock yourself, and know when a question is worth raising rather than waiting on a sync. Your closest day-to-day partners will be mobile engineers and product managers

## What You'll Be Doing

- Own the backend behind growth bets. Build and ship the services powering paywalls, subscription tiering, onboarding journeys, in-app messaging, referral mechanics, trial models, and checkout bundling.
- Make growth measurable. Build and extend the experimentation and instrumentation layer - feature flags, experiment assignment, event tracking - so every bet the team makes can be evaluated on real data rather than opinion.
- Work end to end across the funnel. Move between acquisition, activation, and retention work as the roadmap demands, rather than owning a single narrow surface.
- Partner tightly with mobile and product. Most of what you build is consumed by our iOS and Android apps. You'll design API contracts in conversation with the engineers using them and with the PMs shaping the experiments.
- Operate with high agency. Take ambiguous problems, decide on an approach, communicate it clearly in writing, and ship. Escalate deliberately, not by default.
- Set the pattern for US engineering at Nanit. How you work - documentation, async communication, on-call, review habits - becomes the template for everyone who follows.
- Anchor on-call coverage in your time zone. Be first responder for production alerts during your working hours, extending the backend group toward true follow-the-sun coverage. Triage, mitigate, escalate what you can't, and hand off open threads in writing.
- Contribute to the backend guild. Help drive best practices, guidelines, and standards across R&D, and keep the US perspective represented in them.

## Qualifications

- Professional Experience: 5+ years of backend software development with strong coding skills and solid experience in software design and architecture.
- Proven Autonomy: Demonstrated success working with significant independence - ideally in a distributed team with limited timezone overlap with your manager or peers.
- Written Communication: Excellent asynchronous communication. You write clearly enough that decisions and context survive without a meeting.
- Product Mindset: Comfort with ambiguity and with shipping to learn. You care about the outcome metric, not only the ticket.
- High-Scale Systems: Experience with critical production systems and techniques like load balancing, caching, and distributed systems.
- Web Services: Proficiency designing and maintaining APIs consumed by mobile clients (REST, gRPC, WebSocket).
- Experimentation and Analytics: Hands-on experience with A/B testing infrastructure, feature flags, and event instrumentation (e.g., Unleash, Mixpanel).
- Testing: Solid experience in testing methodologies and test automation frameworks.
- Monitoring and Observability: Proficient with tools like Grafana and Prometheus.
- Delivery Track Record: Proven experience delivering backend projects successfully.
- Agile Familiarity: Knowledge of Agile methodologies.
- Containers and Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes is an advantage.

## Preferred Skills

- Experience with consumer subscription products - billing, plan tiering, App Store and Google Play in-app purchases, or Stripe.
- Prior work on a growth, monetization, or lifecycle team.
- Ability to independently take a concept from research to production.
- Enthusiasm for new technologies and willingness to explore them.
- Commitment to well-crafted and rigorously tested code.
- Willingness to travel to Tel Aviv for onboarding and periodically thereafter.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

- Hybrid in-office schedule
- Remote work from home month in August
- Flexible PTO (we trust you to take the time you need)
- Equity options so you can share in our growth
- Paid parental leave for all new parents
- Employee discounts on Nanit products
- Work from home stipend
- Monthly team events

## What We Offer

We provide an innovative and inclusive work environment, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth. We believe in productivity rather than hours on the clock and value collaboration and innovative thinking. We take pride in our customer satisfaction and believe that our success comes from delivering exceptional value to our customers.

EEO, Salary and Location:

This is a hybrid role that will require prospective candidates to be in our NYC office 2-3 days per week.

Salary Range: $180K to $200K base salary + equity and benefits. The base pay is one component of Nanit's total compensation package, which may also include access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.

## About Nanit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nanit provides a smart baby monitoring system that uses computer vision, machine learning, and sleep science to track a baby’s sleep, breathing, and development, offering parents personalized insights and peace of mind.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; latest round: $50M in Dec 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Andrew Berman, Assaf Glazer, Eyal Dreifuss, and Gilad Cohen

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Consumer Electronics, Smart Home, Baby Tech, Health & Wellness
- **Target customers**: B2C (new parents and families)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Simplified, science-backed insights to help babies and families thrive." The company uses technology and science-backed expertise to go beyond basic monitoring, helping parents move through every phase with more confidence, calm, and connection.

## Products & Services
- **Nanit Smart Baby Monitor (Pro Camera)**: The core hardware product. A wall-mounted camera that uses computer vision and machine learning to track a baby's sleep patterns, breathing motion (via a special Breathing Wear band), and room conditions (temperature, humidity). Provides real-time video, two-way audio, and sound/motion notifications.
- **Nanit Insights (Subscription)**: A premium subscription service that unlocks advanced features like detailed sleep analytics, a personalized sleep schedule generator, a care log, and a "Time-Lapse" video summary of the night. The algorithms learn and adapt over time.
- **Nanit Flex**: A more portable, adjustable stand version of the camera for travel or different room setups.
- **Nanit Sound + Light**: A standalone audio monitor and sound machine that pairs with the Nanit ecosystem.
- **Nanit Insights Memories Plan**: A subscription plan focused on saving and sharing key video moments and milestones.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$116M** (as of Dec 2025). Annual Revenue estimated at **$7.2M**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by prominent investors including **Rho Ventures**, **Bessemer Venture Partners**, **Upfront Ventures**, and **Aspect Ventures**.
- **Growth Signals**: The company has seen significant headcount growth, with a **43.1% increase year-over-year** (now ~152 employees). It recently closed a **$50M venture round in December 2025**. The company operates in 9 countries and has offices in New York (HQ) and Tel Aviv.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Computer Vision & AI**: Unlike many competitors, Nanit uses computer vision and machine learning algorithms trained on billions of hours of sleep data to provide unique insights like breathing motion monitoring and sleep pattern analysis without a wearable device.
- **Science-Backed Approach**: The company collaborates with pediatricians and sleep scientists to inform its product development, creating a strong brand of trust and authority in the parenting space.
- **High Customer Engagement**: The product is a "sticky" part of a new parent's daily routine, creating a highly engaged user base and a strong source of recurring subscription revenue.
- **Award-Winning Product**: Consistently recognized as a top-tier smart baby monitor by major publications (e.g., Wirecutter/NYT).

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Innovation**: Continuing to advance its computer vision and AI algorithms to provide deeper, more personalized sleep and developmental insights.
- **Global Expansion**: Operating in 9 countries with a growing international customer base.
- **Subscription Growth**: Driving adoption of the "Insights" subscription to build a recurring revenue model and deepen customer engagement.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Actively hiring across hardware, software, AI/computer vision, and growth teams to fuel product development and market expansion.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees are directly contributing to a product that helps millions of families, making a tangible impact on parents' confidence and babies' health.
- **Cutting-Edge Tech**: The engineering team works on challenging problems in computer vision, machine learning, and embedded systems, with a tech stack that includes PyTorch, TensorFlow, and microservices.
- **Strong Growth Trajectory**: With a recent $50M funding round and rapid headcount growth, the company is in a scale-up phase, offering opportunities for career advancement and impact.
- **Culture & Perks**: The company offers a comprehensive benefits package including equity, performance bonuses, generous parental leave, employee discounts, pet-friendly offices, and commuter benefits. They have a 4.1/5.0 rating on employer review sites.
- **Work Policy**: Primarily **in-office** for roles in New York and Tel Aviv, with a focus on a collaborative, on-site work environment.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Offers diversity-based Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

## Sources
1. [nanit.com - About Us](https://www.nanit.com/pages/about-us)
2. [nanit.com - Product Page](https://www.nanit.com/)
3. [LinkedIn - Nanit Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nanit)
4. [Built In - Nanit Careers](https://builtin.com/company/nanit)
5. [nanit.com - Careers Page](https://www.nanit.com/pages/careers)

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