# Lead Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Attain](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/attain)
**Location:** Redwood City, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Rust, API Design, Microservices, AWS, GCP, Azure, iOS, Android, gRPC, GraphQL, Protobuf, Relational Databases, React Native
**Posted:** 2026-02-20

> Lead backend engineer owning Rust microservices that drive business logic, feature flags, and UX configuration for a data-driven mobile rewards app. Partners with mobile teams on APIs and acts as technical lead across initiatives.

## Job Description

## 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
- Familiarity with backend- or configuration-driven client architectures

## Nice-to-Haves
- 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)

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