Staff Product Engineer, Backend
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UK / flexible working arrangements across EuropeFull-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- JavaGoDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing and scaling distributed backend systems using Go.
- Strong understanding of billing systems, metering infrastructure, or usage-based pricing models.
- Experience integrating with payment providers such as Stripe or similar financial platforms is highly desirable.
- Solid background in backend architecture, API design, reliability engineering, and scalable infrastructure.
- Knowledge of Java and multi-language backend ecosystems is considered a plus.
- Strong expertise in observability practices, monitoring systems, and OpenTelemetry concepts.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools and applying strong technical judgment to production code.
- Deep understanding of testing methodologies and data accuracy requirements in financial or billing environments.
- Strong product mindset with the ability to balance technical constraints and user experience.
- Proven leadership and mentorship experience in high-performing engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural design and evolution of scalable backend systems using Go and distributed systems best practices.
- Develop and maintain reliable usage-based billing and metering solutions that ensure accurate event tracking and revenue operations.
- Build integrations between internal platforms, payment providers, cloud marketplaces, and reporting systems.
- Drive technical strategy for backend infrastructure focused on reliability, maintainability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Establish and promote engineering standards related to code quality, testing, observability, and system design.
- Proactively identify technical risks, reliability concerns, and performance bottlenecks before they impact operations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with product and customer requirements.
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance, architecture reviews, and knowledge sharing initiatives.
- Contribute to observability improvements and OpenTelemetry-driven monitoring practices across engineering workflows.
- Optimize internal tooling, billing transparency, forecasting capabilities, and customer-facing cost visibility solutions.
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