Manifest

Senior Backend Application Engineer

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12 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$150k - $210k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build scalable, fault-tolerant web services and ETL pipelines.
  • Design high-performance systems capable of handling tens of thousands or more transactions per second.
  • Develop platform features and optimize existing systems for mission-critical external customers.
  • Create robust monitoring, testing, and deployment strategies.
  • Collaborate with product management, designers, and engineers to resolve issues and align technical work.
  • Communicate technical concepts internally and externally and help recruit and onboard engineering colleagues.
  • Define and maintain high engineering standards.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience focused on web services and ETL systems.
  • Proven experience scaling high-volume, data-intensive systems.
  • Expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud architectures.
  • Familiarity with containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Familiarity with TypeScript, MongoDB, Go, or Python sufficient to ramp up quickly.
  • Experience with commercial SaaS or on-premises software supporting third-party or external customers.
  • Experience working in early-stage B2B SaaS technology startups.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Preferred experience with MongoDB and other data stores, AI/ML, LLMs, model tuning, information security, red teaming, cybersecurity, or SDLC security tooling such as SCA, DAST, and SAST.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with potential for hybrid coworking.
  • Unlimited paid time off.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents paid at 100%.
  • 401(k) and other retirement options.
  • Meaningful stock options.
  • Additional benefits may include retirement offerings and holiday gifts.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Manifest

About Manifest

201-500 employees

At Manifest, we drive growth by starting in the messy middle — where customer consideration widens and momentum is at greatest risk. We focus on shortening that journey to close the gap between brand and performance, turning consideration into preference and driving results that ripple throughout the full funnel. As an independent, integrated agency with roots in content, brand journalism, performance marketing, digital storytelling, creative technology, ecommerce, and consumer brand campaigns, we’ve seen enough to know that through complexity, comes certainty.

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