Staff Backend Engineer - Commerce
Together AI4 days ago
Base Salary
$230k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and own the technical roadmap for monetization and billing infrastructure.
- Lead architecture reviews for major systems investments.
- Drive cross-functional alignment with Product, Finance, and Go-To-Market teams.
- Mentor and grow engineers through design feedback and code reviews.
- Own data modeling and schema design for core commerce entities.
- Establish and evolve API contracts with client engineering teams.
- Champion reliability and scalability of commerce APIs and distributed systems.
- Identify and reduce technical debt proactively.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building large-scale, fault-tolerant API-driven services.
- Demonstrated track record of tech lead or staff-level scope.
- Deep expertise in designing relational database schemas and backend APIs.
- Strong experience leading cross-functional teams.
- Expert-level proficiency in Golang, TypeScript, Python, C++, or Java.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems tradeoffs.
- Strong understanding of low-level systems concepts.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and mature CI/CD workflows.
- Experience with payment processors and billing systems preferred.
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments is a plus.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and startup equity.
- Health insurance and other competitive benefits.