Senior Backend Software Engineer (Consumer)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Backend Software Engineer (Consumer)
• Focus: Owning and delivering backend systems for consumer experiences
• Work style: Remote-first with flexibility; occasional in-person onboarding

Description

Own backend systems for a consumer-facing experience, delivering quarterly team goals and leading engineers through ambiguous, open-ended problems. Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to articulate technical constraints and partner on decisions that balance risks and trade-offs. Drive quality, reliability, and operational excellence through standards, metrics, and on-call support.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver quarterly goals for the team
• Lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
• Participate in product development lifecycle: ideation, articulating constraints, and decision partnership
• Proactively identify and advocate for project/process/technology/business issues; lead solutions
• Create and monitor metrics for team artifacts; escalate when needed; support keep-the-lights-on and on-call
• Foster quality and ownership by setting/improving code review and design standards; advocate beyond the team via writing and tech talks
• Develop team talent through feedback and guidance; lead by example

Requirements

• 4+ years designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using Python or Kotlin
• Track record building highly available distributed systems with AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes
• Ability to define technical plans for significant features/components with elegant, simple, extensible design
• Strong code quality with ease of understanding and reuse by others
• Proficiency making significant changes in a large code base using safe tooling and practices
• Demonstrated ownership of personal growth via proactive feedback seeking
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for global collaboration
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Health coverage at no cost (100% premiums for employees and dependents)
• Monthly spending stipends for tech setup and health/wellness options
• Flexible time off and generous holiday calendar
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with discounted shares
• Inclusive interview process with accommodations for candidates with disabilities