Senior Backend Engineer - Remote

Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build systems that power our distributed computing, data workflows, and core infrastructure. You’ll take ownership of major backend components, contribute to database and orchestration architecture, and collaborate closely with our DevOps and ML teams. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who loves solving complex technical problems, improving system reliability, and contributing to the evolution of a high-performing backend platform.

In Short

• Contribute to the design and evolution of our workflow orchestration system.
• Implement scheduling, queuing, rate limiting, and retry logic.
• Build components for state tracking, error handling, and cleanup.
• Collaborate with DevOps to enhance observability and deployment automation.
• Design and optimize schemas for scalable data storage.
• Improve query performance across large datasets.
• Build and maintain integrations with various data sources.
• Develop file processing pipelines handling high data volumes.
• Take ownership of complex backend projects.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Solid experience with distributed systems and large-scale backend development.
• Strong database expertise: SQL and performance optimization.
• Solid computer science fundamentals.
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines and external integrations.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Proven experience improving system reliability and performance.
• Strong communication skills for technical discussions.

Benefits

• Great benefits include unlimited PTO, health insurance, and meal stipend.
• Opportunities to develop partnership acumen by partnering with leaders.