About the Role
The role involves leading backend development efforts, building robust APIs, and improving system architecture to support long-term growth and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable server-side applications
- Own critical components of the backend infrastructure
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define technical requirements
- Optimize systems for performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decision-making
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
- Participate in code reviews and system design discussions
- Ensure code quality through testing and automation
- Drive best practices in security and data integrity
- Work with observability tools to monitor system health
- Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing
- Evaluate and integrate new technologies when appropriate
- Support incident response and on-call rotations
- Help define roadmap priorities for backend services
- Improve deployment pipelines and CI/CD workflows
- Collaborate on database schema design and query optimization
- Ensure compliance with data privacy standards
- Scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand
- Refactor legacy systems to improve maintainability
- Work closely with frontend teams to deliver seamless integrations
Nice to Have
- Experience in high-growth startup environments
- Leadership role in large-scale backend migrations
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Advanced degree in computer science or related field
- Knowledge of service mesh technologies
- Experience with real-time data processing systems
- Background in security engineering practices
- Familiarity with regulatory compliance frameworks
- Track record of improving system observability
- Experience mentoring mid-level and senior engineers
Compensation
Competitive salary and equity package
Work Arrangement
Remote with flexible hours
Team
Collaborative engineering team focused on scalable infrastructure
Tech Stack
- Primary languages include Go and Python
- Services run on Google Cloud Platform
- Containerized using Docker and orchestrated with Kubernetes
- Infrastructure managed through Terraform
- Monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana
- Logging with Fluentd and Stackdriver
- CI/CD powered by GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
- Databases include PostgreSQL and Redis
- Message brokers such as Pub/Sub and Kafka
- APIs served over gRPC and REST
Culture & Values
- Emphasis on ownership and accountability
- Decisions driven by data and user impact
- Open communication across all levels
- Commitment to diversity and inclusion
- Regular feedback and performance reviews
- Support for professional development
- Transparent sharing of company goals
- Work-life balance encouraged
- Flat organizational structure
- Bias toward action and experimentation
Growth Opportunities
- Path to technical leadership roles
- Opportunities to shape team structure
- Exposure to executive-level strategy
- Chance to build systems from the ground up
- Influence over product direction
- Regular cross-team collaboration
- Access to industry conferences
- Internal tech talks and workshops
- Leadership in open-source initiatives
- Mentorship programs for career advancement
Available for qualified candidates
