About The Role
As a Staff Engineer - Backend, you will play a key role in defining and driving the technical direction of our backend systems.
You'll architect scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions to solve complex business problems while mentoring engineers across teams.
You'll collaborate cross-functionally to align technology initiatives with business goals and ensure engineering excellence across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Execution :
- Act as a subject matter expert in one or more backend technologies, providing technical guidance and mentorship across teams.
- Define, architect, and implement robust, maintainable backend systems for large-scale web applications.
- Manage and forecast project timelines, risks, and dependencies to ensure smooth delivery.
- Drive best practices for software design, testing, deployment, and documentation.
- Conduct high-level design and code reviews to uphold engineering quality and scalability standards.
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies or frameworks to improve backend efficiency and reliability.
Collaboration & Leadership
- Lead cross-functional and cross-team collaboration to solve ambiguous and complex engineering challenges.
- Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, fostering growth and leadership within the team.
- Influence and contribute to technical strategy and long-term architectural decisions.
- Participate in and help shape the engineering hiring process, ensuring alignment with company standards.
- Build strong relationships with non-adjacent teams to align efforts and achieve strategic objectives.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, with demonstrated expertise in designing distributed systems or large-scale web architectures.
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go, Node.js, Scala, or Java.
- Deep understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and experience designing efficient data models.
- Hands-on experience with NoSQL technologies (Redis, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Memcached).
- Strong knowledge of scalable web architecture, microservices, and API design.
- Excellent debugging, optimization, and performance-tuning skills.
- Proven ability to balance hands-on technical work with long-term architectural thinking.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
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