# Senior Backend Engineer (IC6)
**Company:** [Dispel](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/dispel)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $150K-$169K
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Go, AWS, Azure, Vpc, System Design, API Development, Databases, Caching, Queues, Event-Driven Architecture, Network Security, Vpn, DNS
**Posted:** 2026-05-28
> Senior backend engineer building secure network infrastructure systems. Owns architecture through delivery for complex production APIs and services across cloud, database, and network layers.
## Job Description
## Execution

### System Design and Delivery
- Design, scope, and deliver — from architecture through implementation and testing
- Scope and stage work into well-defined milestones to avoid monolithic deliverables, enabling frequent and predictable delivery
- Estimate projects, deliver on those estimates, and communicate risks when timelines shift
- Write code that is easy for other engineers to understand and reason about — clear, well-tested, and designed to last
- Create model documentation that others extend and reference

### Complex Problem Solving
- Resolve a wide range of technical issues in creative ways, spanning software, infrastructure, and network layers
- Select methods and techniques that result in low-defect, high-performance software that is easy for the team to maintain and extend
- Identify problems and risks in your own and others' work, and address them before they compound
- Work with cross-team stakeholders to define requirements and ensure technical execution aligns with business objectives

### Reliability, Security, and Quality
- Own reliability, monitoring, logging, and instrumentation of the systems you build
- Ensure systems meet performance, scalability, and security requirements — particularly as they relate to network infrastructure and cloud environments
- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
- Continuously improve system quality, automation, and operational maturity

## Enabling Others

### Cross-Functional Communication
- Communicate effectively across teams — identify and surface requirements problems early, reducing rework and wasted effort
- Partner with product, security, and infrastructure teams to align technical decisions with company objectives
- Contribute to technical discussions that influence broader engineering direction
- Informally mentor IC1 and IC2 engineers on your team — through code review, pairing, and sharing technical context
- Participate in evaluation portions of interview loops to help Dispel hire well

## Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of delivering complex systems
- Strong proficiency in at least one core programming language — effective in the languages your team uses and can pick up new ones as needed
- Comfortable using coding agents (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) as part of your daily workflow
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure in particular) including networking constructs such as VPCs, subnets, security groups, and private endpoints
- Experience working across multiple layers of the stack: application, database, infrastructure, or security
- Demonstrated ability to work with cross-team stakeholders to define requirements and deliver results with minimal oversight
- Strong understanding of system reliability, monitoring, and performance optimization
- Experience on multiple teams or in multiple roles — brings breadth that informs technical judgment
- Strong proficiency in one or more of: Python, TypeScript, Go
- Must have been deeply involved with complex, production-grade APIs and services
- Strong understanding of cloud execution environments and how architectural decisions affect them
- Must have strong understanding of databases, caches, queues, events, and workers
- Solid understanding of network fundamentals: routing, switching, VPN protocols, DNS, and firewalls
- Strong understanding of network security principles and hardening practices
- A willingness to accept failure and feedback, learn and try again
- A passion for learning new disciplines and gaining a deep understanding of how others on the team do their work
- An ability to communicate clearly and succinctly both in-person and over team chat

## Benefits
- Salary range for role: $150,000-$169,000
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous paid time off and holidays
- Performance bonus and equity eligible
- Remote work
- Medical, vision, dental insurance
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