Senior Backend Engineer.

Role: Senior Backend Engineer

This is a senior individual contributor role with technical leadership responsibility. You will remain hands-on while owning the technical direction, quality, and outcomes of critical backend systems. You will act as a go-to engineer for backend design decisions, scalability challenges, and code quality, influencing teams through technical leadership rather than people management.

What You Will Be Doing

Own and Lead Backend Systems

• Own the design, evolution, and reliability of high-impact backend systems and services.
• Take responsibility for system health, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead technical initiatives that address existing scale issues, tech debt, and architectural gaps.

System Design & Architecture

• Drive both high-level and low-level system design with a focus on correctness, scalability, and long-term evolution.
• Design data models, APIs, async workflows, and service boundaries with clear ownership.
• Make pragmatic trade-offs that balance speed of delivery with system health.

Improve Code Quality & Maintainability

• Raise the bar on backend code quality through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on refactoring.
• Simplify complex or brittle code paths and establish maintainable patterns.
• Introduce guardrails and best practices to prevent recurring quality issues.

Database & Performance Optimization

• Diagnose and resolve database bottlenecks, especially in PostgreSQL.
• Optimize schemas, queries, indexes, and data access patterns.
• Make informed decisions around caching, async processing (RabbitMQ or similar), and designing, operating, and evolving both real-time and batch analytics pipelines (ClickHouse or equivalent systems).

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Act as a trusted technical advisor for backend engineers across teams.
• Guide engineers on design choices, debugging strategies, and system thinking.
• Influence technical direction through reasoning, clarity, and example.

Production Ownership

• Take ownership of production issues, incident resolution, and post-incident learning.
• Improve observability, debuggability, and operational readiness of systems.
• Drive long-term reduction in incidents and operational load.

You Will Thrive in This Role If You

Core Requirements

• Have 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong expertise in Node.js.
• Have deep experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, including performance tuning.
• Have designed and operated distributed backend systems in production.
• Are comfortable owning systems end to end, from design to production support.

Strong Plus

• Experience working with RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems.
• Hands-on exposure to ClickHouse or large-scale analytics systems.
• Experience deploying and operating systems on AWS.
• Strong understanding of debugging, observability, and production reliability.

Engineering Mindset

• You enjoy fixing messy systems and improving existing codebases incrementally.
• You value clear abstractions, readable code, and pragmatic design over over-engineering.
• You have a testing mindset and understand where tests add the most value.
• You think in terms of systems, trade-offs, and long-term impact, not just features.

Leadership Without Authority

• You influence technical decisions through clarity and reasoning.
• You are comfortable pushing back on timelines or scope when system health is at risk.
• You mentor other engineers and elevate overall engineering standards.

What We Offer

• Unlimited PTO: Trust and flexibility to manage your time in the way that works best for you.
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance: Plans designed to support you and your loved ones.
• Monthly Wellness Leaves: Regular time off to recharge and focus on what matters most.
• Competitive Pay: Your contributions are recognized and rewarded with a compensation package that reflects your impact.

Join us, and be part of something bigger - where your work drives real, positive change in the world.