About the Role
The role involves building and optimizing backend systems, contributing to architectural decisions, and ensuring the reliability and efficiency of services that power core product functionality.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable APIs and services
- Collaborate with frontend and product teams to integrate features
- Optimize system performance and response times
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
- Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
- Contribute to database schema design and query optimization
- Support deployment pipelines and monitoring systems
- Ensure code meets security and compliance standards
- Work with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure
- Improve system reliability and uptime
- Document technical designs and processes
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies when beneficial
- Assist in capacity planning and scalability efforts
- Maintain backward compatibility during updates
- Monitor application performance and error rates
- Refactor legacy components for better maintainability
- Collaborate on incident response and post-mortems
- Support automated testing frameworks
- Help define and follow engineering best practices
- Integrate third-party services securely
- Contribute to disaster recovery planning
- Ensure efficient use of computing resources
- Participate in sprint planning and retrospectives
- Mentor junior engineers when needed
Nice to Have
- Master's degree in computer science or engineering
- Experience with high-traffic web applications
- Contributions to open-source software
- Background in fintech or regulated industries
- Knowledge of GraphQL
- Experience with observability platforms
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies
- Understanding of data privacy laws
- Leadership experience in technical projects
- Published technical articles or talks
- Experience mentoring developers
- Hands-on work with large-scale data processing
- Knowledge of distributed tracing
- Experience in security-first environments
- Track record of system improvements
Compensation
Competitive salary with equity and benefits
Work Arrangement
Remote-first with optional office locations
Team
Collaborative engineering team focused on scalable systems
Tech Stack
- Primary languages include Go and Python
- Services run on Kubernetes in the cloud
- PostgreSQL and Redis for data storage
- APIs built with REST and gRPC
- Monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana
- CI/CD powered by GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure managed with Terraform
- Logging through centralized solutions
Growth Opportunities
- Engineers are encouraged to lead initiatives
- Regular internal tech talks and workshops
- Budget for conferences and learning resources
- Clear pathways for technical advancement
- Opportunities to contribute to open standards
Available for qualified candidates
