1 month ago
Base Salary
$258k - $386k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and drive technical solutions for key backend platform and foundational infrastructure systems.
- Lead the architecture and implementation of scalable distributed systems, APIs, event-driven systems, and platform services.
- Drive modernization across backend architecture, service boundaries, data access patterns, and infrastructure.
- Establish and uphold standards for reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Partner with product engineering teams to align platform capabilities with business and product needs.
- Drive technical decisions and contribute to incident management, resiliency, and production excellence.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on collaboration.
Requirements
- Significant experience building large-scale backend systems, typically 6–8+ years or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, and low-latency architectures supporting millions of daily active users.
- Experience with databases, caching systems, storage technologies, data modeling, queues, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience optimizing performance across APIs, databases, caching layers, and distributed services.
- Experience with incident response, production debugging, and operating systems in cloud-native environments such as AWS and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Python, Go, Java, or Rust.
- Ability to communicate architectural trade-offs clearly in writing and cross-functional forums.
- Experience mentoring senior and mid-level engineers and contributing to engineering culture through design reviews, documentation, or team standards.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity plans.
- Healthcare, flexible time off, company holidays, recharge days, parental leave, and a 401(k) plan with matching.
- Commuter benefits, lifestyle stipends, learning and development stipends, and patronage.
- Hybrid work in San Francisco or New York; the description states both three in-office days per week and a general policy of two in-office days per week for office-based employees.
Tech Stack
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