Senior Backend Engineer

We are looking for backend engineers who enjoy systems problems, not just building APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design and build workflow-driven backend systems.
• Work with distributed, asynchronous architectures.
• Own components end-to-end in production environments.
• Occasionally contribute to the frontend (React) to ship faster.
• This role is backend-first but requires strong ownership across the stack when needed.
  
  

Distributed Workflows And Async Systems

• Build systems that orchestrate multi-step workflows across services.
• Handle retries, failures, and partial execution safely.
• Design systems that are deterministic and recoverable.
• Work with background workers, queues, and async processing.
  
  

Backend Architecture And APIs

• Design APIs for complex product workflows.
• Build scalable and maintainable data models.
• Maintain clear service boundaries and data flow.
• Ensure systems remain predictable and easy to evolve.
  
  

Production Systems (Reliability And Scale)

• Improve observability (logs, metrics, tracing).
• Debug issues across distributed systems.
• Optimize for performance, scalability, and cost.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and production environments.
  
  

Code Quality And Ownership

• Refactor systems as complexity grows.
• Build clean, maintainable abstractions.
• Take ownership of backend components long-term.
• Ensure the system scales without becoming fragile.
  
  

Requirements

• 3-6 years of experience building production backend systems.
• Strong experience in Python.
• Solid understanding of: Backend architecture and API design, Asynchronous systems, Distributed task processing, and Data modeling.
• Experience debugging real production issues.
  
  

Good To Have

• FastAPI or similar frameworks.
• Workflow orchestration tools (e. g., Temporal).
• PostgreSQL (schema design and performance).
• Redis / queues / background workers.
• Docker, Kubernetes, observability tools.
• Exposure to React or frontend collaboration.
• Experience with AI systems / data pipelines.
  
  

What We're Looking For

• Engineers who think in systems, not just endpoints.
• Strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
• Comfortable debugging complex, real-world failures.
• Care deeply about maintainability and correctness.
• Willing to step outside strict role boundaries when needed.
  
  

This job was posted by Alice Kujur from Jurisphere AI.