# Staff Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Giga](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/giga)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, California
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $290k – $400k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, Django, FastAPI, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Modal, Next.js
**Posted:** 2025-10-11

> Staff Backend Engineer leads complex projects, designs scalable system architecture for AI agent infrastructure, owns high-stakes initiatives, and mentors through hands-on coding. Requires 7+ years backend experience with Python/Django/FastAPI and cloud infrastructure expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Drive technical initiatives across the company, including system architecture design for agent infrastructure scaling (tradeoffs between speed, reliability, and complexity).
- Own hard technical problems and highest-stakes ambiguous projects.
- Identify system gaps proactively and build cases for addressing them.
- Set standards for code review, system design, and operational excellence.
- Work across team boundaries, mentor engineers through collaboration, and be responsible for outcomes beyond individual output.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience with track record of leading complex projects.
- Strong opinions on system design with ability to articulate tradeoffs.
- Ability to turn vague problems into clear technical approaches independently.
- Write excellent code and maintain high standards without bottlenecking.
- Energized by hard problems, comfortable with uncertainty, hands-on coding.
- Experience building scalable systems and understanding scaling challenges.

## Tech Stack
**Backend:** Python (Django/FastAPI), TypeScript (Node.js)  
**Infrastructure:** AWS, Modal, Kubernetes, Postgres  
**Frontend:** TypeScript, Next.js (interaction as needed)

## Perks & Benefits
- Catered lunch daily
- Dinner stipend
- $150/month wellness benefit (gym, fitness classes, mental health)
- 401(k) plan
- Paid parental leave (12 weeks maternal, 6 weeks paternal)
- Commuter benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage

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