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Senior/Staff Backend Engineer - remote friendly

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over 2 years ago
Paris, FranceSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain backend services handling real-time financial transactions.
  • Co-own service architecture, resilience, and scalability using Domain-Driven Design principles.
  • Lead technical design discussions, anticipate risks, and mentor less experienced engineers.
  • Own service reliability in production, including monitoring, incident handling, and root-cause analysis.
  • Drive continuous improvement through CI fixes, post-mortems, and sharing operational learnings across teams.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, frontend engineers, mobile engineers, and other backend engineers in autonomous squad teams.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience with large-scale web application architecture and real production constraints.
  • Ability to transfer quickly between technology stacks and work with technologies similar to Go, Ruby, Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and ELK.
  • Experience writing tests, setting up monitoring, handling incidents methodically, and performing root-cause analysis.
  • Demonstrated ownership of released work, including tracking impact, identifying regressions, and improving systems proactively.
  • Comfort working collaboratively with product managers, designers, and engineers across multiple technology stacks.
  • Fluent English communication skills.

Benefits

  • Remote-friendly work for people living in or willing to relocate to Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, or Spain.
  • Access to Cursor or Copilot and unlimited access to AI tools.
  • Work in autonomous squads of 5 to 10 people with a clear project mission and full product-scope ownership.
  • Collaboration within a 190-person backend engineering community and a 500-person Product Engineering department.
  • Hiring process averages 20 working days.
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