Senior Backend Engineer

This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on complex distributed systems and have deep experience with backend APIs, relational databases, and event-driven architectures. You’ll build high-performance, reliable solutions across cloud-native platforms and global infrastructure for a fast-scaling, commerce-driven company.

Responsibilities

• Identify, design, and develop foundational backend services that power Fal's commerce platform

• Partner with product teams to understand functional requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs

• Write clear, well-tested, and maintainable software and IaC for both new and existing systems

• Analyze and improve the robustness and scalability of existing distributed systems, APIs, databases, and infrastructure

• Conduct design and code reviews, create developer documentation, and develop testing strategies for robustness and fault tolerance

Requirements

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in building large scale, fault tolerant, distributed systems and API microservices

• Expert-level programmer in one or more of Python, Go, Or Rust

• Experience designing, analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources

• Proficiency in writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Proficiency in version control practices and integrating IaC with CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with payment processors (e.g. Stripe) and billing systems a plus

• Experience with Kubernetes, or containers a plus

• Experience building and operating data infrastructure (Kinesis, Airflow, Kafka, etc) a plus

What we offer at fal:

• Interesting and challenging work

• Competitive salary and equity

• Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise)

• A lot of learning and growth opportunities

• We offer visa sponsorship and will help you relocate to San Francisco.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)

• Regular team events and offsite

Compensation:

• $180,000 - $250,000 + equity + comprehensive benefits package

Location:

• We are currently hiring in downtown San Francisco.