About the Role
The role involves leading backend development efforts, mentoring engineers, designing robust APIs, and driving system architecture improvements to support a growing product platform.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of backend services
- Collaborate with product and frontend teams to deliver integrated features
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and technical guidance
- Define and enforce backend coding standards and best practices
- Own critical components of the system architecture
- Troubleshoot production issues across multiple environments
- Optimize application performance and scalability
- Participate in sprint planning and technical roadmap discussions
- Evaluate new technologies for backend infrastructure improvements
- Ensure system reliability through monitoring and observability
- Drive incident response and post-mortem processes
- Work closely with data teams to support analytics pipelines
- Maintain API documentation and developer tooling
- Support deployment automation and CI/CD workflows
- Balance technical debt with feature development
- Contribute to security reviews and compliance efforts
- Design data models and manage database schema evolution
- Integrate third-party services and external APIs
- Ensure backend systems meet uptime and latency targets
- Lead backend testing strategies including integration and load testing
- Foster collaboration between engineering and product stakeholders
- Promote reusability and modular design in service development
- Guide technical decisions during product planning phases
- Improve developer productivity through internal tools
- Champion engineering excellence across the product team
Compensation
Competitive salary and equity package
Work Arrangement
Remote with optional hybrid flexibility
Team
Product engineering team focused on streaming platform development
About the Role
- This position plays a central role in shaping the backend infrastructure that powers a widely used streaming service.
- The engineer will lead initiatives that directly impact product functionality, reliability, and performance.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential to align technical solutions with user needs.
Culture & Values
- The team values transparency, technical rigor, and continuous improvement.
- Innovation is encouraged through regular knowledge sharing and experimentation.
- Work-life balance is supported through flexible scheduling and remote-first policies.
Available for qualified candidates
