# Software Engineer - Backend, Standalone Apps Team

We're Meta's Standalone Apps Team - we build new apps to reach new user scenarios and serve needs that aren't well met today. It's still early - a small team working 0→1.If you want high ownership, a short path from idea to ship, and the chance to shape a product from its first version, this is that kind of team. We're looking for a senior backend engineer to build the services behind the product. You'll design and own backend systems that power the app, make them reliable and fast as usage grows, and partner with client and ML engineers on the end-to-end experience. Responsibilities Design, build, and own backend services and APIs that power the core product. Model data and design systems that stay reliable, fast, and cost-efficient as usage grows. Set technical direction for major backend areas; raise the bar on quality, observability, and operational health. Partner with client, ML, and product to deliver features end to end. Mentor other engineers and improve how the team builds. Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant t

- **Id**: 3833808
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/meta-software-engineer-backend-standalone-apps-team>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Menlo Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T20:07:07Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T04:52:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2112
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Foundation Models, Messaging Apps

## Company

- **Id**: 20
- **Name**: Meta
- **Domain**: meta.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/meta>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career sitemap

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 241
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.909
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 38
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T20:17:39Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 38
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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