Software Engineer - Backend

Responsibilities

• Work alongside full-stack engineers, bringing deep backend and systems expertise to ensure scalable and reliable product functionality.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to design, build, and operate backend systems supporting customer-facing features.
• Take ownership of backend and systems aspects of product features from design through production and scale.

Requirements

• Comfortable in early-stage startup environment with occasional extra effort for mission-critical work.
• Experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems at scale.
• Strong backend engineering focus; deep systems and backend expertise essential.
• Hands-on with multi-service architectures in production.
• Ownership of performance, reliability, and scalability (e.g., query optimization, indexing, bottlenecks).
• Fluency in modern AI tooling for development workflow.
• Proficiency in strongly typed backend language (C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, or similar).
• Hands-on with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL (schema design, performance tuning).
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS preferred), Kafka, Redis, or similar.
• Strong systems design instincts for scalability, performance, reliability tradeoffs.
• High autonomy, end-to-end ownership, close collaboration.
• Bias toward practical, iterative solutions with minimal overhead.

Compensation

Targeted at $180,000 - $225,000/yr (final offer based on experience and expertise).