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Designs, builds, and maintains scalable backend services, APIs, databases, data flows, and infrastructure. Leads complex features from design through deployment while improving performance, observability, security, testing, and reliability. Integrates third-party platforms, supports cloud infrastructure and CI/CD practices, and mentors engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing.

Design, build, test, deploy, and support scalable backend applications across the full software development lifecycle. Collaborate with product, UX, nutrition, vendors, and business stakeholders to define solutions and interfaces. Solve complex architectural problems, refactor code, mentor engineers, communicate technical direction, and develop distributed systems using cloud, big-data, and backend technologies.

The role involves ensuring software reliability and performance, managing incidents, developing infrastructure automation, and mentoring junior engineers within a platform team.

Improve AWS production infrastructure reliability, observability, performance, and operational maturity. Build Terraform infrastructure, enhance CI/CD, automate operational work, manage incident response and on-call operations, lead postmortems, improve application resilience, support capacity planning and database reliability, and collaborate on security hardening and compliance. Mentor engineers and promote reliability practices across the organization.

Leads technical direction and develops fullstack purchase experiences using Ruby on Rails and Vue.js. Designs resilient transactional flows, integrates billing and CRM systems, improves reliability and rollout safety, mentors engineers, reviews code, reduces technical debt, and participates in incident response. Partners with Product, Design, Billing, and Support to improve GitLab’s purchase, subscription, discount, and upgrade workflows.

The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will manage large-scale cloud production systems, ensuring reliability and performance, while automating processes and responding to incidents.

Lead hands-on full-stack development for Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React applications. Shape technical direction, design reliable APIs and data flows, optimize relational database performance, and deliver responsive front-end experiences. Lead projects end to end, mentor engineers, review and refactor code, collaborate cross-functionally, and explore AI-assisted engineering and LLM automation while protecting sensitive healthcare data.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical strategy, architecture, complex feature design, implementation, scalability, and greenfield development. The role mentors engineers, leads design and code reviews, drives technical alignment, addresses technical debt, participates in hiring, and remains a hands-on contributor to full-stack enterprise software development using technologies such as PHP, Laravel, Vue.js, and MySQL.

Design, develop, and maintain secure integrations across NetSuite, Coupa, Leapfin, and other enterprise systems. Build iPaaS workflows, custom connectors, webhook and event-driven automations, bulk synchronization processes, monitoring, error handling, and retry mechanisms. Translate finance requirements into technical specifications and data mappings, support implementation projects, document architectures, and maintain audit readiness. Apply AI-powered tooling to automate finance operations while ensuring compliance, security, and reliable handling of sensitive financial data.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of payment systems, oversee key subsystems, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality code and architectural standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Build, maintain, and operate Ookla’s globally distributed infrastructure platform at massive scale. Responsibilities include managing cloud instances, containers, serverless applications, databases, streaming systems, and big-data tooling; supporting 24/7 production operations and on-call rotations; implementing security programs; improving deployment pipelines, monitoring, observability, and reliability; and guiding software and data engineering teams on operational best practices and troubleshooting.

Own reliability, monitoring, and incident response for AI infrastructure; build automation and CI/CD tooling; manage Kubernetes/Docker production workloads; partner with infrastructure, security, and compliance; improve observability and documentation; develop internal full‑stack tooling in Go or Python.

Lead architecture and delivery across Rails backends and React frontends, build Node.js and NestJS platform integrations, establish testing and code-quality standards, mentor engineers, review code, and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience. The role requires technical ownership across multiple backend technologies and leadership in AI-assisted development practices.

Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions. Manage priorities and deliverables, participate in design reviews, perform code reviews, triage and debug issues, contribute documentation, and collaborate in cross-functional agile teams to build scalable web applications.

The Staff Engineer will lead cross-functional teams, focus on AI development practices, ensure scalable engineering, and evolve system architecture at ParentSquare.

The Engineering Manager will mentor a team of engineers, improve processes, collaborate with product managers, and define staffing strategies.

The Staff Engineer will lead the Systems team, design scalable cloud infrastructure, optimize data pipelines, and ensure platform reliability and security.

Build and maintain resilient backend systems, participate across the product development lifecycle, collaborate with product and design, raise engineering standards, think through system lifecycles and failure modes, and contribute broadly at an early-stage fintech. Work primarily with backend technologies (Go preferred) and cloud/datastore tools.

Lead Shopify projects, oversee development and integrations, guide engineers and ensure high-quality execution for clients' commerce needs.

The role involves designing CLI and backend services, maintaining code quality, collaborating on technical issues, and writing documentation.

Develop and maintain LabArchives electronic laboratory notebook, inventory, and scheduler products. Collaborate with product, operations, and support teams to design, build, test, release, and improve software features across front-end, back-end, and database layers. Create unit tests and expand automation frameworks, participate in code reviews, security audits, and accessibility evaluations, and contribute to continuous improvement in a remote environment.

Design and build the control plane for Postgres clusters, ensure data protection, automate database operations, and collaborate with customers to enhance the platform.

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will own the cloud stack, enhance observability, architect browser cloud infrastructure, debug operational issues, and mentor other engineers, while managing multiple production workloads at scale.

The Anti-Bot Engineer will research and implement evasion techniques against sophisticated anti-bot systems, debug TLS fingerprinting, and analyze browser behavior to optimize scraping methods.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop efficient systems to enhance healthcare delivery and collaborate with various teams to innovate features for patient care tools.