Staff Backend Platform Engineer
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United States, Remote (West)Full-TimeStaff
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLPythonFastAPIData modelingDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with focus on backend platform, integrations, or data infrastructure.
- Experience operating systems in production at scale.
- Track record of leading cross-team or org-wide technical initiatives.
- Strong proficiency in Python, FastAPI, Celery, and similar async/queue-based frameworks.
- Deep experience with Postgres, including schema design and query optimization.
- Experience working with large datasets and real-world data quality challenges.
- Experience setting engineering standards for service design and data architecture.
- Experience designing and operating integrations with third-party SaaS systems.
- Strong background in modern cloud-based architectures, particularly AWS.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for Conversica's backend platform, owning architecture decisions that span integrations, data, messaging, and orchestration.
- Drive cross-functional initiatives that touch multiple engineering teams, partnering with AI Engineering, Product, and Integrations leadership.
- Define and evolve org-wide engineering standards for backend service design, data modeling, integration patterns, observability, and operational excellence.
- Identify systemic reliability, scalability, and performance risks across the platform.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers across the backend organization.
- Represent the backend platform in technical strategy discussions with executive leadership.
- Build and ship production code.
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