Senior Backend Engineer, Platform

Responsibilities

• Build upon and integrate customer feedback into API tooling and shared services
• Create new architectural foundations and mission-critical distributed systems
• Work within an agile, scrum-based engineering team focused on core platform capabilities
• Advocate for, create, and maintain API governance across engineering
• Own integrations within the API Gateway layer and service lifecycles from design to production
• Identify improvements to the design and implementation of new and existing critical shared services
• Help grow infrastructure engineering organization's shared services
• Support platform capabilities that power AI initiatives, including Brain and Agents

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Strong understanding of API standards, design approaches, and integration patterns
• Strong understanding of CAP Theorem and distributed systems design patterns
• Proficient with TypeScript
• Proficient with Golang
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Strong consideration for developer experience

Nice-to-Haves

• Pragmatic approach to software design, development, and delivery
• Experience working with Kafka and related event-based patterns
• Experience working with and designing Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns
• Experience supporting modern AI technologies, including MCP protocol and standards
• Experience building shared services and platform capabilities that enable AI products and agent-based systems