4 hours ago
Remote, United Kingdom or Remote, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and ship moderate-to-complex backend features with minimal guidance.
- Make architectural trade-offs among modular-monolith code, shared components, and independently operated services.
- Define backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, security, performance, and operational readiness.
- Diagnose and prevent performance and reliability issues at scale, participate in incident response, and act as a technical owner when appropriate.
- Mentor associate and intermediate engineers, remove technical blockers, and improve delivery through code and design reviews.
- Use AI in production engineering work, evaluate its effectiveness, and coach others on responsible use.
- Collaborate across product, frontend, infrastructure, data, and security boundaries and help shape technical and product direction.
Requirements
- Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning in complex product or service environments.
- Proficiency in modern backend languages and a deep understanding of systems programming.
- Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures.
- Ability to lead through technical influence, sound judgment, and clear written communication.
- Proven experience building or operating agentic systems in production, including loops, tool use, and error-handling strategies.
- Helpful experience with high-throughput distributed systems, concurrency, profiling, containerized production operations, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, schema evolution, partitioning, modular monoliths, event-driven systems, public technical communication, open-source maintenance, or developer-focused SaaS.
Benefits
- Health, financial, and well-being benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Remote-first work arrangement with location-based eligibility requirements potentially applying
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