# Backend Engineer
**Company:** [Weave](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/weave)
**Location:** Remote
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Go, Java, Python, C, C++, Kafka, Google Pubsub, Bigtable, Spanner, Vertica, Vitess, S3, Iceberg, AWS, GCP
**Posted:** 2026-06-26
> Backend engineer on the Data Platform team building scalable, resilient distributed services for large-scale data integration, event processing, and platform extensions. Requires 3+ years backend experience and expertise with distributed systems, messaging, and NoSQL technologies.
## Job Description
## What You Will Own
- Design and Develop core data platform components for enabling business process orchestration and workflows.
- Build scalable, resilient services to support data integration, event processing, and platform extensions.
- Contribute to the continued evolution of product functionality that services large amounts of data and traffic.
- Write code that is high-quality, performant, sustainable, and testable while holding yourself accountable for the quality of the code you produce.
- Coach and collaborate inside and outside the team. You enjoy working closely with others - helping them grow by sharing expertise and encouraging best practices.
- Work in a hybrid cloud infrastructure, considering the implementation of functionality through several distributed components and services.
- Work with our stakeholders to translate product goals into actionable engineering plans.

## What You Will Need to Accomplish the Job
- High integrity, team-focused approach, and collaboration skills to build tight-knit relationships across Weave.
- 3+ years of experience in any back-end language, i.e. Go, Java or Python (Go, Java, or C/C++ experience is a plus).
- Experience moving and storing TBs of data or 100’s of millions of records.
- Understanding of distributed systems and building scalable, redundant, and observable services.
- Expertise in architecting messaging systems, distributed data stores and NoSQL technologies (e.g., Kafka, Google PubSub, Bigtable, Spanner, Vertica, Vitess, S3, Iceberg, etc.).
- Experience building solutions to run on one or more of the public clouds (e.g., AWS, GCP, etc.).
- Experience with infrastructure as code, and setting up and maintaining highly available systems.
- Responsive person with a strong bias for action.
- Entrepreneurial spirit and a thirst for learning.
- Demonstrated track record of delivering complex projects on time and have experience working in enterprise-grade production environments.
- Strategic thinker with a strong technical aptitude and a passion for execution.

## What Will Make Us Love You
- A background with data analysis and visualization.
- 5+ years of experience in any back-end language, preferably Java, Go or Python.
- Management of distributed data technologies such as streaming, data mesh, data lakes, warehouses, or distributed machine learning.
- Experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with GCP.
- A background in operations such as networking, system administration, or DevOps/SRE.
- Enjoys working in a greenfield environment using rapid prototyping.
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