Staff Backend Engineer

We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineers who love building fast, scalable and intuitive user interfaces. You'll work closely with product, design and frontend teams to translate ideas into high-quality user experiences that directly impact business outcomes. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys owning features end-to-end, writing clean code and shipping fast in a high-growth environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs.
• Translate product requirements into efficient system design and robust backend logic.
• Optimise systems for speed, reliability, scalability, and security.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to enable seamless API integrations.
• Drive code quality, reusability, and adherence to engineering best practices.
• Troubleshoot issues, improve system performance and ensure high availability.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions and sprint planning.

Requirements:

• Strong engineering background with education from Tier I technology schools.
• 8-15 years of experience in backend development.
• Proficiency in building scalable services using Node.js and/or Python; language-agnostic mindset preferred.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and backend architectures.
• Understanding of databases (SQL/NoSQL), data modelling, and query optimisation.
• Experience with system design, performance optimisation, and scalability best practices.
• Familiarity with caching, messaging queues and asynchronous processing is a plus.
• Knowledge of authentication, authorisation, and security best practices.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills.

Skills

API, APIs, Node.js, NodeJS, Python, REST, RESTful, backend