Senior Backend Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Backend Engineer (Core DevOps)

• Focus: Backend product capabilities, reliability/performance, and agentic AI integration

Description

You will design, implement, and evolve backend capabilities while improving the quality, reliability, and performance of systems at scale. You’ll drive technical direction, set backend standards (style, maintainability, testing, APIs, operational readiness), and mentor engineers. You will also integrate agentic AI into production engineering workflows and participate in operational support when required.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance

• Make pragmatic architecture trade-offs (modular-monolith, shared components, or independently operated services)

• Define and enforce backend standards for quality, security, availability, and performance

• Mentor engineers and remove technical blockers via code and design reviews

• Diagnose and prevent performance/reliability issues; act as technical owner where appropriate

• Participate in incident response and on-call/operational support as needed

• Use AI in production engineering work, evaluate effectiveness, and coach others on responsible high-judgment use

Requirements

• Deep backend expertise in architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning

• Ability to adapt and learn in modern backend languages and complex systems environments

• Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures

• Strong influence through technical judgment and clear written communication

• Proven agentic AI experience in production (loops, tool-use, and error-handling for reliable operation)

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off

• Team member resource groups

• Equity compensation & employee stock purchase plan

• Growth and development fund

• Parental leave

Salary

United States base salary range: $139,200–$174,000 USD (base salary only; may include other compensation/equity as applicable).