Staff Backend Platform Engineer
Based in the United StatesFull-TimeStaff
SalaryCompetitive compensation aligned with experience, skills, role scope, and geographic market considerations.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLPythonFastAPIDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant expertise in backend platforms, integrations, distributed systems, or data infrastructure operating at production scale.
- Proven success leading large technical initiatives across teams, including architecture design, stakeholder alignment, execution, and delivery.
- Strong proficiency in Python and extensive experience building production services using frameworks such as FastAPI, Celery, or similar asynchronous processing technologies.
- Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL, including schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, and operational management in production environments.
- Experience designing and maintaining large-scale data pipelines and working with complex datasets across multiple source systems.
- Demonstrated ability to establish engineering standards and influence technical direction across an organization.
- Expertise integrating with third-party SaaS platforms and managing challenges such as rate limits, schema evolution, retries, and partial system failures.
- Strong background in modern cloud-native architectures, particularly within AWS environments.
- Experience leveraging modern AI-assisted development tools as part of an efficient engineering workflow.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, mentoring, and technical leadership skills.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical vision for backend platform architecture, influencing integrations, messaging infrastructure, data systems, and orchestration services across multiple engineering teams.
- Lead complex cross-functional initiatives, partnering with product, AI, and engineering stakeholders to deliver scalable platform capabilities and align technical roadmaps with business objectives.
- Establish and evolve engineering best practices for backend service development, data modeling, observability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Design and enhance integration frameworks supporting APIs, webhooks, data ingestion pipelines, synchronization services, and resilient processing of external system interactions.
- Build and maintain messaging infrastructure for email, SMS, and chat delivery, ensuring scalability, auditability, throughput optimization, and system reliability.
- Develop and optimize platform services, workflow orchestration mechanisms, event-driven architectures, and backend systems that support AI-powered products.
- Identify and mitigate platform-wide risks related to scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability while driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Mentor engineers through technical reviews, architecture guidance, and collaborative problem-solving, helping elevate engineering standards across the organization.
- Contribute directly to production code development while providing technical leadership on critical backend initiatives and long-term platform evolution.
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