Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus)

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and optimize highly performant backend services for real-time data processing and
• Define and own SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for core API services, using reliability data to guide
• Build and maintain effective observability through meaningful metrics, structured logging
• Participate in an equitable on-call rotation, respond effectively to production incidents, mitigate
• Automate repetitive operational processes and follow through on incident action items to reduce
• Conduct capacity planning, load testing, performance analysis, and tuning to ensure systems can

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, including substantial experience operating
• Demonstrated experience with formal SRE practices, including error budgets, capacity planning
• Strong hands-on experience with Go and/or Node.js, with the flexibility and willingness to learn
• Proven ability to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems, APIs, microservices, and
• Practical experience running production workloads with Docker and Kubernetes or comparable
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.

🎁 Benefits

• US compensation reference: $150,000–$200,000 in cash compensation for US-based employees
• Fully remote working environment with the ability to work from a wide range of countries, subject
• Opportunity to work on high-scale backend and fraud-detection infrastructure with meaningful
• Exposure to modern technologies including Go, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Docker
• Flexible, globally distributed work environment designed around remote collaboration and
• Opportunities for continuous technical development, experimentation, and knowledge sharing.