Senior Backend Engineer
About The Position
An early-stage technology business developing solutions for eCommerce brands is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale its technology platform. The role takes ownership of backend architecture and engineering across API development, data pipelines, background job processing, and infrastructure. The engineer will make technical decisions, build robust systems, and influence the platform's development as the business grows. The position is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining backend systems, with a focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability. It involves ownership of the engineering lifecycle, collaboration with product, design, and customer experience teams, and improving development processes, tools, and technical architecture.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience building and maintaining production-grade backend systems.
- Strong programming skills and ability to write clean, maintainable, well-structured code.
- Experience designing databases, APIs, and backend infrastructure.
- Understanding of high-throughput systems and background job queues.
- Strong ownership of code, infrastructure, testing, and monitoring.
- Confidence making sound technical decisions in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.
- Interest in developer experience and building tools and systems that make work easier for other engineers.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with rate limiting, authentication systems, and quota management.
- Experience with analytics, attribution engineering, and event tracking.
- Experience with data platforms such as dbt and Snowflake.
- Experience building WYSIWYG editors.
- Experience with PDF generation, rendering processes, and image manipulation.
- Experience with server-side rendering frameworks such as Next.js or Remix.
Responsibilities
- Design and build robust, scalable backend systems and services.
- Develop and maintain APIs and backend architecture.
- Architect infrastructure for job processing, analytics, and event tracking.
- Build internal tools for authentication, rate limiting, and quota management.
- Work with data pipelines and background processing systems.
- Optimize system performance, security, and scalability.
- Own the full engineering lifecycle, including code quality, testing, infrastructure, and monitoring.
- Collaborate with product, design, and customer experience teams to deliver new features.
- Identify opportunities to improve development processes, tooling, and technical architecture.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
