Summary
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A senior-to-staff backend engineering opportunity at a growing technology company focused on protecting organizations from evolving digital threats. You will independently define solutions to complex problems, write technical designs, guide other engineers, and shape architecture, scalability, and maintainability.
Highlights
High-autonomy backend engineering role with substantial ownership over complex technical problems. The position includes technical leadership, mentoring, architecture decisions, and direct influence on engineering quality and velocity.
Description
Senior-Staff Backend Software Engineer
Location: Boston area (Hybrid)
Salary: $180K–$230K base plus bonus
I'm working with a growing company helping protect organizations from evolving threats.
Real product-market fit, strong traction, and actively scaling to meet growing customer demand.
This is a growth hire on a small, sharp engineering team.
You won't be handed a detailed spec here, you'll be handed a real, unsolved problem and trusted to define the approach yourself.
If you do your best work with genuine autonomy, this is built for you.
Responsibilities:
Independently gather requirements and design high-impact, complex systems, writing real technical design docs that weigh cost, scalability, and maintainabilityAct as a technical lead for others, mentoring engineers and giving constructive feedbackSet the standard for velocity and quality, contributing to codebase improvements beyond your own immediate tasksCoordinate across teams to align technical strategy and share best practices
Tech stack: Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, distributed systems, microservices, PostgreSQL, and event-driven architecture.
Comfortable working in Python day to day, with real experience in other languages like Java, Kotlin, Scala or Go a genuine plus, we actually prefer a mixed background over someone who's only ever worked in one language.
The ideal profile would have:
Senior to Staff level experience, strong software engineering fundamentals first, genuine coding ability, not just familiarity with data toolsReal experience designing systems in cloud/distributed environments, has operated beyond a single machineComfortable and productive in Python, with exposure to other languages seen as a real strength, not just a nice to haveDemonstrated business impact, not just technical outputGenuinely thrives without a detailed spec, if you need a clear set of requirements to do your best work, this isn't the right fitNot a DevOps/Terraform specialist, that's covered elsewhere on the team
Bonus, not required:
Data engineering background (pipeline orchestration, data lake formats, object storage)ML experience with real measurement fundamentals (precision, recall, model quality), not just prompt tuningExperience building AI agents and tooling
What's in it for you:
Real autonomy to define how systems get built, tested, and shipped, not just execute against someone else's specGenuine mentorship scope on a growing, junior-heavy teamProduct-market fit already found, this is scaling, not early guessworkStrong benefits package, including equity, home office budget, and comprehensive health coverage
This role is not open to sponsorship at this time.
Hubscale is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status.
