This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Software Engineer, Backend based in United States.
This role offers the opportunity to build and scale critical backend systems powering a modern engineering operations platform used by organizations worldwide.
You will tackle complex technical challenges involving distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and developer-focused tooling.
As a technical leader, you will influence architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and contribute to building high-quality products.
The position combines hands-on engineering with cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering, leadership, and customer-facing teams.
You will work in a remote-first environment where ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence are highly valued.
This is an opportunity to help shape a growing platform while solving meaningful problems for engineering teams at scale.
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Software Engineer, Backend based in United States.
This role offers the opportunity to build and scale critical backend systems powering a modern engineering operations platform used by organizations worldwide.
You will tackle complex technical challenges involving distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and developer-focused tooling.
As a technical leader, you will influence architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and contribute to building high-quality products.
The position combines hands-on engineering with cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering, leadership, and customer-facing teams.
You will work in a remote-first environment where ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence are highly valued.
This is an opportunity to help shape a growing platform while solving meaningful problems for engineering teams at scale.
Accountabilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and efficient backend services that support enterprise-level requirements.
- Build new product capabilities while enhancing existing systems and improving overall platform performance.
- Solve complex engineering challenges related to scalability, reliability, distributed systems, and backend architecture.
- Optimize backend systems to improve speed, efficiency, availability, and maintainability.
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including planning, implementation, testing, deployment, debugging, and production operations.
- Contribute to incident response activities and help maintain high levels of system reliability.
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive technical feedback to improve engineering quality.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following modern engineering best practices.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, leadership teams, sales teams, and customers to understand requirements and deliver impactful solutions.
- Improve development, deployment, and operational processes to increase engineering effectiveness.
- Mentor and coach engineers by sharing technical knowledge and supporting professional growth.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and evaluate new approaches that improve product capabilities.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of experience building backend applications using modern programming languages.
- Strong experience designing and developing distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-based applications.
- Experience working with modern databases and data storage technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or similar solutions.
- Solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, system design, and web development best practices.
- Experience building highly available and scalable backend services.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities with a focus on delivering practical solutions.
- Ability to learn, evaluate, and adopt new technologies and programming languages.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
- Experience mentoring, coaching, or supporting the growth of other engineers.
- Ability to take ownership of technical initiatives and drive projects from design through delivery.
- Competitive starting salary range of $215,000 – $245,000 annually.
- Competitive equity package.
- Fully remote work environment with flexibility across the United States.
- Company offsites several times per year to strengthen collaboration and team relationships.
- 100% employee-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Unlimited paid time off and flexible working hours.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Gender-neutral parental leave.
- $1,000 annual Learning & Development stipend.
- $400 monthly perks stipend to use toward personal and professional needs.
- Pet insurance.
- Opportunity to work on innovative developer tools used by organizations of all sizes.
- Collaborative culture focused on ownership, growth, and engineering excellence.
As a Lead Software Engineer, Backend, you will take ownership of designing, developing, and improving scalable backend systems while providing technical leadership within an engineering team. You will contribute to architecture decisions, product development, operational excellence, and mentoring initiatives.
Requirements:
The ideal candidate brings strong backend engineering expertise, experience building scalable systems, and the ability to contribute as both an individual contributor and technical mentor. You should be comfortable working on complex technical problems and collaborating across teams.