Senior Backend Engineer
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and building scalable platform services and systems. You will collaborate closely with engineers across teams, product managers, and partner functions to deliver high-quality solutions that power our core platform.
Beyond technical excellence, we’re looking for someone who thrives in a highly collaborative environment, communicates with clarity, can lead complex initiatives end-to-end, and consistently raises the bar for engineering quality and execution. We value engineers who bring strong ownership, deep technical judgment, and the ability to drive alignment across teams.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and building scalable platform services and systems. You will collaborate closely with engineers across teams, product managers, and partner functions to deliver high-quality solutions that power our core platform.
Beyond technical excellence, we’re looking for someone who thrives in a highly collaborative environment, communicates with clarity, can lead complex initiatives end-to-end, and consistently raises the bar for engineering quality and execution. We value engineers who bring strong ownership, deep technical judgment, and the ability to drive alignment across teams.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of complex backend systems and distributed services
- Partner cross-functionally with engineers, PMs, designers, and non-technical stakeholders to drive projects from concept to launch
- Architect, build, and evolve API frameworks and platform capabilities used across multiple teams
- Produce clean, modular, well-tested, and high-performing code and abstractions
- Identify, diagnose, and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues
- Champion engineering best practices and drive consistency across the codebase
- Participate in—and help elevate—the team’s code review process
- Clearly communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, and project updates to diverse audiences
- Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of growth and high performance
- Take end-to-end ownership of major projects, including requirements clarification, design, execution, and rollout
Qualifications and Skills
- 7+ years of full-time engineering experience, ideally in high-scale, high-complexity environments
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering backend architectures from the ground up
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, and performance tradeoffs
- Hands-on engineering experience with several of the following: TypeScript, Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, React, AWS
- Skilled in software engineering best practices: design patterns, testing strategies, observability, code quality, and secure development
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to explain complex ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to lead cross-team initiatives, drive alignment, and influence technical direction
- High degree of ownership, proactive problem-solving, and the ability to operate with urgency when needed
- Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and understanding of security principles and common attack vectors
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