Lead Backend Engineer
Lead backend engineer owning Rust microservices that drive business logic, feature flags, and UX configuration for a data-driven mobile consumer app. Partners closely with mobile teams to define APIs and data models while growing into broader technical leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own backend services (primarily Rust-based microservices) that power the Frisbee consumer experience.
- Own backend systems responsible for business logic, feature flags, and UX configuration that control mobile behavior and layout.
- Define and maintain clean, well-documented APIs and client-server contracts used by iOS and Android applications.
- Partner closely with mobile engineers to enable fast, predictable execution and unblock delivery.
- Act as technical owner for major initiatives from design through production.
- Provide architectural guidance and code review across backend and mobile codebases.
- Collaborate with Product and Design to translate customer needs into scalable systems.
- Participate in planning, prioritization, and delivery with a strong bias toward execution.
- Occasionally contribute to mobile codebases when needed.
- Help establish engineering standards and raise the technical bar across the team.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building and owning backend systems in production environments.
- Strong experience designing APIs, service boundaries, and data models.
- Experience evolving complex systems and working with microservice or service-oriented architectures.
- Experience operating systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Experience working closely with iOS and Android engineering teams.
- Value clear communication, strong engineering judgment, and constructive feedback.
Nice-to-Haves
- Familiarity with backend- or configuration-driven client architectures.
- Experience with gRPC, protobuf, or GraphQL.
- Experience with relational databases.
- Understanding of mobile performance characteristics and constraints.
- Exposure to React Native.
- Experience integrating third-party SDKs (e.g., analytics, scanning, CRM).
- Strong backend engineering experience and enjoy owning systems end to end, including making pragmatic architectural decisions in ambiguous problem spaces.
- Excited to design and build backend services that orchestrate product behavior, business logic, and user experience.
- Interested in growing into broader technical leadership over time.
Skills
Rust, APIs, Microservices, AWS, GCP, Azure, gRPC, Protobuf, GraphQL, Relational Databases, React Native
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