Senior Software Enginer - Backend

Responsibilities:

• Own the design, development, and maintenance of critical backend systems, APIs, and data models.
• Drive architectural decisions across services, databases, queues, and event-driven integrations.
• Improve scalability, performance, security, code quality, testing, and production reliability.
• Identify technical bottlenecks and implement improvements.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing.
• Work closely with engineering leadership to evaluate trade-offs and evolve system architecture.
• Build, debug, review, and deploy production code.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with ownership of complex backend systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Node.js, or Go.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and backend architecture.
• Knowledge of database design, caching, queues, retries, idempotency, and failure handling.
• Experience with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and message queues.
• Strong system-design judgment and understanding of reliability, complexity, cost, and delivery trade-offs.
• High standards for code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
• Experience mentoring engineers and improving team practices.
• An ownership mindset focused on outcomes rather than just assigned tasks.

Nice to have:

• Experience with real-time systems, WebRTC, LiveKit, telephony, SIP, or streaming infrastructure.
• Experience building SaaS systems, observability and alerting systems, billing systems, or distributed workflows.
• Experience with production AI/LLM-based systems, agent orchestration, tool calling, evaluation pipelines, or prompt engineering.
• Knowledge of container orchestration, serverless architectures, messaging systems, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with high-volume event processing, analytics pipelines, or search infrastructure.

Skills

backend, distributed systems, dynamodb, go, mongodb, node.js, postgresql, python, redis