Backend Engineer

Integrate•Seattle, WA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

Integrate is a Seattle-based company building program management software for the world’s most ambitious machines. Integrate simplifies cross-organizational collaboration within deep tech (think rockets, self-driving cars, robotics), with vendors, customers, and other external stakeholders as seamlessly as other software solves collaboration for internal teams. We are revolutionizing how organizations work together in the new deep tech economy by reducing communication overhead and unnecessary workload. Our Solution Existing software tools struggle to match the rapid pace and complexity of hardware development in deep tech industries. Integrate is creating specialized software that facilitates clear, efficient, and effective communication across internal and external stakeholders, empowering teams to innovate faster. We’re hiring a Backend Engineer to join a small, high-ownership engineering team building the infrastructure layer of Integrate’s platform. This isn’t a maintenance role — you’re coming in to help us scale. The problems you’ll work on are real and immediate: distributed system performance, data federation at scale, and building the architecture that lets Integrate grow with it’s increasing customer base. You’ll work closely with engineers who care deeply about craft, move fast, and aren’t afraid to make hard calls. If you’ve built systems that handle serious consumer or commercial load — cloud migrations, microservice transitions, distributed data pipelines, event driven architecture — this is the role for you.

Requirements

2–5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a focus on distributed or high-availability systems
Production experience in Go; Python for tooling or data workflows
Familiarity with gRPC and REST/JSON API design at scale
Experience with both SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL data stores in production
Kubernetes in real environments — deployment, scaling, resource management, debugging
Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), particularly around compute, storage, and data services
Strong debugging instincts — you can read a flame graph, find a bottleneck, and ship a fix
US person status (including US citizens, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted U.S. asylum status, or individuals admitted in U.S. refugee status) is a required qualification for this position.

Nice To Haves

experience with gRPC design patterns, binary serialization, or API gateway-layer GraphQL
Terraform or other IaC tooling is a plus
experience with load testing or chaos engineering is a nice addition
Background in ecommerce, fintech, or other consumer-scale SaaS is helpful but not required

Responsibilities

Design and scale distributed backend systems handling high-throughput, real-time data across a complex dependency graph
Own performance profiling and debugging across our Go and Rust services — identify bottlenecks and ship fixes
Contribute to our data federation architecture, including S3 integration, graduation pipelines, and downstream data services
Build and evolve gRPC service interfaces and REST/JSON APIs consumed across internal and external surfaces
Work across SQL and NoSQL data stores — schema design, query optimization, and durability patterns
Drive infrastructure decisions in collaboration with platform engineers and technical leads
Instrument, observe, and debug production systems — on-call, root cause analysis, and incident follow-through