Staff Back-end Engineer

Backend Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Design and evolve backend services, APIs, data models, integrations, and distributed systems.
• Lead technical design for complex initiatives and evaluate architectural alternatives.
• Communicate trade-offs around scalability, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Identify opportunities to simplify systems, reduce technical debt, and modernize existing architecture.

Software Development & Delivery

• Design, implement, test, review, and deploy production-quality backend software.
• Own complex features and services from technical analysis through deployment and production operation.
• Make pragmatic decisions when working with legacy systems.
• Balance delivery speed, maintainability, and technical risk.

Distributed Systems & Reliability

• Work with relational databases, caching, queues, asynchronous processing, APIs, and service integrations.
• Apply sound judgment around transactions, concurrency, retries, idempotency, failure handling, and data consistency.
• Identify bottlenecks and improve application, database, and system performance.

Operational & Infrastructure Ownership

• Take ownership of the operational health of production systems.
• Improve monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, CI/CD, and observability.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Work comfortably with AWS, hybrid infrastructure, Linux, and on-premise environments.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Provide technical guidance through architecture discussions, code reviews, debugging, documentation, and mentoring.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Operations, and QA to translate requirements into reliable technical solutions.
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs clearly across distributed teams.