Backend Engineer

• Own features end-to-end, from proposing ideas and scoping projects to building APIs, dashboard experiences, and the services behind them
• Build reliable distributed systems, including queues and background workers that handle traffic spikes, retries, and failures predictably
• Scale APIs and databases, improving performance, data integrity, and efficiency as usage grows
• Operate built systems with meaningful monitoring, safe deployments, and participation in the on-call rotation
• Work closely with support and customers to understand recurring problems and turn them into product improvements
• Improve engineering quality by strengthening tests, tooling, and existing systems alongside building new capabilities

Software Engineer, Backend

• Shape the technical direction of distributed messaging systems in Go
• Make high-level architectural decisions for mission-critical services balancing scale, cost, and reliability
• Solve ambiguous, high-stakes problems across squads and functions
• Drive decisions when the right answer is not obvious
• Build consensus across teams on contested technical questions
• Communicate technical tradeoffs to senior leadership
• Set quality and design standards
• Mentor senior engineers
• Create reusable frameworks and documentation
• Drive engineering process and tooling improvements across multiple squads
• Interview candidates and calibrate against the career ladder
• Use AI agents for multi-file changes by scoping work, writing prompts, and verifying output

Backend Engineer jobs in North America

Software Engineer, Backend

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