Sr. Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be a technical anchor across the team — expected to lead by example, shape architecture decisions, and raise the quality bar for everything we ship. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy while staying deeply embedded in collaborative engineering culture.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of complex backend systems from design through production — including architecture, implementation, and long-term maintenance.
• Lead technical discussions, drive engineering decisions, and document trade-offs clearly for the team.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing sessions, and structured feedback.
• Identify systemic weaknesses in our infrastructure, propose improvements, and execute on them with minimal direction.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and data to align technical direction with business goals.
• Drive improvements to observability, reliability, and performance across our backend stack.
• Contribute to hiring by participating in technical interviews and helping define the engineering bar.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with a track record of owning critical systems in production.
• Deep expertise in Java (Spring Boot) and strong familiarity with Python; comfortable navigating a polyglot codebase.
• Proven experience designing distributed systems — event-driven architecture, microservices, data pipelines.
• Strong command of PostgreSQL and experience working with cloud-native infrastructure on AWS.
• Someone who has been through hypergrowth or scale challenges and has the scars and instincts to show for it.
• A multiplier: you make the engineers around you better through your presence, feedback, and technical clarity.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity — you can shape requirements, not just execute on them.