Software Engineer II (Backend)

Quick Facts

• Role: Software Engineer II (Backend)

• Focus: Backend platform features (Identity & Access Management or API)

Description

As a Software Engineer II, you’ll design, develop, test, and deploy backend features across the application stack, writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. You’ll collaborate with engineers and product managers to turn customer problems into technical solutions, contribute to design and code reviews, and improve CI/CD workflows and automated testing. You’ll also use metrics to guide implementation decisions and measure impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test features across the application stack

• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to translate customer problems into solutions

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

• Participate in code reviews and share knowledge

• Deploy small, incremental improvements to production with confidence

• Improve CI/CD workflows and automated testing practices

• Identify and reduce friction in local development, debugging, and deployment

• Use data and metrics to inform implementation decisions

• Rotate to deepen expertise across backend, frontend, and mobile

• Identify and fix issues such as flaky tests from CI/CD job logs

Backend Team Options

• Identity & Access Management (IAM): authentication, authorization, and access management; includes Keycloak

• API: backend API layer for the application; focus on performance and fast, reliable user experience

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience

• 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience

• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language: Go, Python, Java, TypeScript, Ruby

• Ability to become productive in unfamiliar stacks as a polyglot engineer

• Hands-on experience reading and debugging CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)

• Experience with at least one test framework, including investigating and fixing flaky tests

• Familiarity with Git and cloud environments such as AWS

• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to improve workflows or outputs

Benefits

• Paid holidays and flexible scheduled time off

• Innovation-focused culture that welcomes big ideas

• MacBook setup plus a $500 stipend for your workspace

• CET hours supporting a balanced schedule for Poland-based team

• Equity in a rapidly growing startup-backed by top-tier VCs

• Compensation: 5,300–6,600 USD per month