Senior Backend Engineer, AMER

Overview

Senior Backend Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving backend product capabilities and influencing technical and product direction.

What you'll do

• Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance.
• Improve system quality, reliability, and performance beyond assigned work.
• Define backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness.
• Advocate for product quality, security, availability, and performance.
• Mentor associate and intermediate engineers and remove technical blockers.
• Diagnose and prevent performance/reliability issues at scale and participate in incident response.
• Use AI in production engineering work to improve outcomes and coach others on responsible use.

What you'll need

• Strong command of backend architecture and APIs.
• Proficiency in modern backend languages and understanding of systems programming.
• Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries and migration-safe architectures.
• Ability to lead through influence using clear written communication.
• Proven experience building or operating agentic systems in production.
• Experience with high-throughput distributed systems, concurrency, or profiling.
• Hands-on experience with containerized production operations (e.g., Kubernetes).

Details

• Work location: Remote (Canada, United States).