# Staff Software Engineer, Backend | Web Apps

**Company:** [Machinify](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/machinify)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Java, Scala, Rust, SQL, API Development, Backend Architecture, Data Structures, Asynchronous Programming, Machine Learning, Testing
**Posted:** 2026-04-02

> Designs and builds scalable backend systems for web applications at the intersection of engineering, AI, and decision automation. Requires 10+ years backend experience with Java/Scala, system architecture, and strong CS fundamentals.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

- Contribute to backend server-side development to ensure our application is extensible, scalable, and secure
- Recognize and prioritize between Customer deliverables & Tech debt to develop a sustainable software suite of products.
- Enjoy designing and architecting complex frameworks for applying ML techniques to large data volumes and simplifying labor-intensive processes
- Deliver resilient enterprise software solutions

## What You Bring

- 10+ years of backend focused experience in the field of application programming and complex API development
- Strong working experience with **Java** or **Scala**
- Proven experience developing thoughtful backend system design and architecture with scalability in mind
- Additional **Rust** experience highly desired across greenfield projects!
- Experience reading and understanding complex enterprise-grade code, quickly contributing to it, and suggesting improvements.
- Working experience writing **SQL** queries
- Strong CS foundation (**data structures**, **asynchronous programming**) 
- Excellences in test writing discipline
- Critical thinking and problem solving skills working in a high growth environment
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity
- BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

## What We Offer 

- Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first. 
- Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings 
- FSA/HSA 
- Tuition reimbursement 
- Competitive salary, 401(k) with company match 
- Unlimited PTO 
- Additional health and wellness benefits and perks 
- Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work 

Pay range: **$200,000-250,000**

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