Summary
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A senior backend engineering role for building a resilient, scalable, asynchronous platform from the ground up. You will design core services, frameworks, and libraries supporting complex, long-running operations across multiple systems while solving challenging problems of scale and reliability.
Highlights
High compensation with equity, ownership of foundational backend architecture, and the opportunity to build resilient, scalable infrastructure from the ground up.
Description
#Hiring Senior Backend Engineer | On-site, San Francisco, CA
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Job Code: 1011
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👉 Senior Backend Engineer
📍 On-site, San Francisco, CA
💵 $200K + Equity
📝 About the Role
You will be responsible for building a resilient, scalable, and asynchronous platform from the ground up.
The core challenge is to build the backend platform that powers the intelligent automation of complex software environments, tackling problems of scale, resilience, and asynchronous task management.
✅ Design and build the core backend services that enable complex, long-running, and asynchronous operations across multiple systems.
✅ Create the foundational frameworks and libraries that will be used by the rest of the engineering team to build new product capabilities.
✅ Design and implement the suite of robust backend services that form the foundation of their new platform, ensuring they are resilient and scalable.
✅ Partner with leadership to drive key technology and design decisions, and to establish backend engineering best practices.
✅ Help foster a culture of high-quality code, great design, and a commitment to building for the long term.
100% of Must-Haves need to be met
🔹5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, including building, deploying, and operating complex distributed systems.
🔹Deep expertise in a modern backend language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, etc.).
🔹Strong experience with event-driven design, message queues, and asynchronous communication patterns.
🔹Hands-on experience with modern cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP) and containerization technologies.
🔹Experience designing data models and working with a variety of database technologies to fit different needs.
🔹A strong understanding of API design principles and best practices.
70% of Nice-to-Haves need to be met
🔹Direct experience with workflow/orchestration engines.
🔹Experience building developer tools, SDKs, or public-facing APIs.
Tech Stack
🔹Python
🔹Go
🔹Java
Tools
🔹AWS
🔹GCP
🔹Message queues
🔹Workflow/orchestration engines
🔹Databases
