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Role Description

You are a Senior Backend Engineer who thinks in systems, boundaries, and long-term evolution. You enjoy designing reliable backend services, defining clear contracts, and establishing patterns that help the entire engineering organization move faster.

• Take ownership end-to-end: from designing components to ensuring their operability, performance, and maintainability.
• Collaborate well with other senior engineers, contribute to engineering standards, and act as a multiplier for the teams around you.

What you will do:

• Design and implement backend services, frameworks, and shared components that power critical internal and customer-facing systems.
• Define service boundaries, interfaces, and architectural patterns that ensure scalability, reliability, and ease of extension.
• Improve developer experience by building or enhancing internal tooling, libraries, and platform capabilities (authentication, messaging, observability, CI/CD improvements, etc.).
• Lead technical deep dives, RFCs, and architectural discussions that influence the evolution of the platform.
• Drive quality through strong testing approaches, operational best practices, and a focus on resilience and fault tolerance.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to turn ambiguous problems into clear, pragmatic technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers, guide design reviews, and elevate engineering standards across teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and continuously improve reliability through better alerting, metrics, and instrumentation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building backend systems in Node.js, Python, Go, Elixir or similar languages, with strong foundations in clean architecture and modular design.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts: concurrency models, idempotency, retries, caching, resiliency patterns, and service boundaries.
• Experience designing and maintaining internal services, APIs, and libraries used by multiple product teams.
• Solid command of async processing, queues, messaging patterns, and event-driven architectures.
• Deep familiarity with cloud environments (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• Strong experience in CI/CD pipelines, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong debugging and observability skills: logs, metrics, traces, profiling, and understanding the runtime behavior of distributed systems.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives, break down complex problems, and propose clear solutions and architectural trade-offs.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to align engineering decisions across teams.
• A growth mindset aimed toward developing Staff-level architectural breadth and influence.

Requirements

• Experience in frontend web and frontend mobile (ReactJS, Typescript, React-native) is a plus.
• Experience with Elixir (or similar like Scala, Rust) to occasionally modify our legacy system is a plus.

Location

• Remote

Department

• Product Engineering

Employment Type

• Contractor

Minimum Experience

• Mid-level