Software Engineer (Backend)

This is a remote position.

What You'll Do

·         Own the technical roadmap for backend services: reporting, data access, scheduled processing, and export/delivery

·         Drive architectural decisions across multiple interdependent services and data sources, and document them for the team

·         Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, testing practices, API design conventions, and observability

·         Review designs and code from other engineers, and unblock them on hard technical problems

·         Break down ambiguous requirements into a clear technical plan the team can execute against

·         Balance short-term delivery pressure against long-term technical health; call out and manage technical debt deliberately

·         Partner directly with product, QA, and other engineering teams to align on scope, sequencing, and dependencies

·         Lead and propose ideas/solutions in cross-team architecture discussions and vendor/platform evaluations

·         Mentor engineers on the team and help grow their technical judgment, not just their task list

·         Hands-on Engineer: contribute code, especially for the highest-risk or highest-ambiguity problems

What We're Looking For

Required:

·         12+ years building and operating production backend systems, with demonstrated technical leadership (formal or informal)

·         Strong hands-on experience with a modern backend language and framework (e.g. Java/Spring, Kotlin, C#/.NET, Node.js, Python, or Go)

·         Track record of making and owning architectural decisions across multiple services, not just within one

·         Solid relational database experience (schema design, migrations, query performance) at a systems-design level

·         Experience designing REST APIs and service contracts that other teams build against

·         Experience with cloud platforms, GCP preferred

·         Strong understanding of authentication/authorization patterns and security tradeoffs in distributed systems

·         Experience coordinating work and dependencies across multiple engineers and multiple services

·         Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization, including improving pipeline health and delivery velocity

·         Strong background in building scalable, distributed applications and platforms

·         Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting tradeoffs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Strongly preferred:

·         Experience integrating with BI/analytics or data-warehouse platforms

·         Background in regulated or audit-sensitive domains (healthcare, finance, insurance) where data lineage and correctness are strict requirements

·         Experience leading a system through a migration or major architectural shift

·         Experience designing asynchronous or scheduled processing for large data volumes

·         Experience establishing role-based access control and data visibility enforcement at a system-design level

·         Experience mentoring engineers and running technical planning (grooming, estimation, design reviews)

Nice to have:

·         Experience with distributed caching or session/token stores

·         Enough frontend familiarity to review API design from the consumer's perspective

·         Experience building out observability and logging practices for a team, not just using them