Senior Backend Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who can combine strong hands-on engineering skills with proven backend technical leadership. You will lead backend engineering initiatives focused on high-performance, scalable, and reliable systems, while continuing to contribute actively to architecture, coding, code reviews, and technical decision-making. The ideal candidate has previously worked as a backend lead, tech lead, lead engineer, or equivalent, has led backend engineers, and has personally owned production systems operating at a meaningful scale.

Responsibilities:

• Lead backend engineers in designing, developing, and scaling high-performance production systems.
• Drive architecture and technical decisions for APIs, distributed services, asynchronous workflows, and data-intensive applications.
• Remain hands-on with coding and production engineering, rather than operating purely in a managerial capacity.
• Conduct design reviews and code reviews, establish engineering best practices, and improve code quality.
• Mentor and coach backend engineers and help the team improve engineering depth.
• Delegate effectively while maintaining ownership of technical quality and delivery.
• Identify and resolve latency, reliability, scalability, and performance bottlenecks.
• Design systems capable of handling high traffic, concurrency, and complex database workloads.
• Own production incidents, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Drive safe migrations, architectural evolution, and performance/cost optimization.
• Work closely with product and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.

Requirements:

• 4-7 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong production experience in at least one of Python, Go, or Rust.
• Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, and scalable service design.
• Experience building and operating production APIs/services at scale.
• Strong understanding of databases, caching, asynchronous processing, and failure handling.
• Experience troubleshooting and improving system latency, throughput, reliability, and scalability.

Technical Leadership:

• Prior experience as a backend lead, tech lead, or lead engineer.
• Senior engineer with significant technical leadership responsibility.
• You should have demonstrated experience with: Technical/design ownership, code reviews, architecture decisions, delegation, mentoring and coaching engineers, Delivery accountability, leading backend engineering initiatives.
• Formal people management is not mandatory, but genuine technical leadership of backend engineers is required.

Cloud and Production:

• Hands-on experience deploying and operating backend systems in the cloud.
• GCP experience is preferred.
• AWS experience is also relevant.
• Strong understanding of production environments, observability, reliability, and incident management.

High-Performance Systems Experience:

• We are particularly interested in engineers who have personally worked on systems involving: High-throughput APIs, high concurrency, transaction processing, distributed systems, asynchronous/event-driven architectures, complex database workloads, performance and latency optimization, reliability and failure recovery, Large-scale data processing, cost optimization, production migrations