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Valency Systems Inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Valency Systems Inc.

. Report to the Head of Engineering .

Posted 9/17/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and building backend services, APIs, and data pipelines while ensuring operational excellence and code quality. Proficient in cloud infrastructure management and mentoring engineering teams to drive technical direction and project delivery.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Backend Systems ExpertisePython, Go, Java, Rust ProficiencyAWS, GCP, Azure ExperienceDocker, Kubernetes, CI/CD KnowledgeMentoring and Technical Direction

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Hard Skills
Backend Language ProficiencyRelational Database ManagementData Pipeline DevelopmentAsynchronous Architecture DesignObservability ImplementationInfrastructure-as-CodeSecure Coding PracticesPerformance OptimizationArchitectural Decision MakingData Model Design
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationMentoringCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
DockerKubernetesAWSGCPAzurePostgreSQLKafkaSQSRabbitMQTerraform
Industry Keywords
SOC 2 ComplianceGDPR ComplianceCloud Cost OptimizationETL/ELT WorkflowsDistributed Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AirflowAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerETLGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesNode.jsPostgresPythonRabbitMQRustTerraformTypeScriptGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Report to the Head of Engineering
  • Design, build, and own critical backend services, APIs, data pipelines, async workers, and supporting infrastructure
  • Make architectural decisions and document trade-offs
  • Drive platform and reliability investments alongside feature work
  • Establish standards for code quality, test coverage, and operational excellence
  • Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and scalability issues; conduct post-mortems
  • Design and maintain resilient distributed systems using circuit breakers, retries, idempotency, and rate limiting
  • Own services from design through deployment, including CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure
  • Implement observability through structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting
  • Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and cloud cost optimization
  • Design data models across relational and non-relational databases
  • Build data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and third-party integrations
  • Apply CDN, in-memory, and application-level caching strategies
  • Build decoupled asynchronous architectures with Kafka, SQS, or RabbitMQ
  • Apply secure coding practices and contribute to SOC 2/GDPR compliance efforts
  • Unblock teammates and provide technical direction
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through reviews, pairing, and feedback
  • Write architecture decision records and technical documentation
  • Partner with Product and Design to scope and deliver work
  • Represent Engineering in cross-functional conversations

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in backend systems
  • Strong command of at least one backend language: Python, Go, Java, Rust, or similar
  • Comfort working across AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Hands-on experience with relational databases, including schema design, query optimization, and indexing
  • Familiarity with non-relational databases or caching layers
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Ability to own and deliver complex, ambiguous projects end-to-end with minimal supervision
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction without formal authority
  • Clear, direct communication
  • Experience in a startup environment (nice to have)
  • Experience with Node.js/TypeScript, AWS Lambda/CDK/Step Functions, PostgreSQL, or Cloudflare (nice to have)
  • Familiarity with OAuth and observability tooling (nice to have)
  • Experience with Temporal, Airflow, Prefect, and async job processing at scale (nice to have)
  • Working knowledge of Terraform, Pulumi, and cloud cost management (nice to have)
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States
  • Must answer whether employment visa sponsorship will be required

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive salary
  • Benefits
  • Meaningful equity
  • High-trust team with outsized decision impact
  • Engineering culture that invests in its people