Staff Engineer - Backend

📋 Description

• Design and evolve highly scalable, reliable backend systems and services
• Lead architecture for complex and cross-team backend initiatives
• Design APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, and service boundaries
• Build systems capable of handling high-throughput requests and large-scale datasets
• Design asynchronous processing using queues, events, streams, and background workers
• Make architectural decisions around relational databases, NoSQL databases, search systems, caching

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience building backend systems
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Node.js/TypeScript, Go, Java, or similar
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture
• Deep understanding of API design and service-to-service communication
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL database systems
• Experience designing systems involving large datasets and high request volumes

🎁 Benefits

• Build backend systems operating at significant global scale
• Solve challenging distributed systems and data architecture problems
• Influence architecture across multiple products and engineering teams
• Work with high-volume APIs, event streams, databases, search systems, and distributed infrastructure
• Drive improvements in scalability, reliability, performance, and engineering efficiency
• Remain deeply technical without moving into people management