Intermediate Backend Engineer
Build and operate production backend features, APIs, integrations, and services for a large-scale DevSecOps platform. The role requires professional backend development experience, strong database and testing fundamentals, independent feature ownership, and clear asynchronous communication.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and ship backend features and improvements with minimal guidance.
- Build maintainable, secure, observable, and performant production code.
- Design and maintain APIs, background jobs, integrations, and bounded services.
- Work with data models, migrations, indexes, and query behavior.
- Add and improve unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end test coverage.
- Review code for correctness, maintainability, security, performance, and operational risk.
- Investigate build, test, deployment, and runtime failures.
- Identify technical debt and propose practical improvements.
- Participate in on-call or operational support as required.
- Use AI coding tools productively and validate their output.
Requirements
- Professional experience building and shipping production backend applications.
- Strong programming, API, database, testing, debugging, and performance fundamentals.
- Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go, or another modern backend language.
- Ability to own features from clarification through delivery and follow-up.
- Sound judgment regarding security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational risk.
- Understanding of modular backend boundaries and coupling.
- Strong written communication and effective collaboration in a remote, asynchronous environment.
- Practical experience with AI coding tools, including reviewing and correcting generated code.
Nice-to-haves
- Production Go services, APIs, concurrency, profiling, or gRPC.
- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, or cloud deployment.
- Rust, particularly for systems, security, performance, or platform work.
- PostgreSQL, schema evolution, caching, queues, messaging, or event-driven workflows.
- Observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
- Experience contributing to a modular monolith, bounded context, shared component, or independently operated service.
Compensation
- United States base salary: $115,200–$194,400 USD.
- Benefits include flexible paid time off, equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan, a growth and development fund, parental leave, and health and financial well-being support.
Skills
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Go, Rust, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, gRPC, API Design, Ai Coding Tools, Observability, Distributed Systems
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