About the role
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team and take ownership of backend development, architecture, scalability, and production systems.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, build, and deploy backend features and services.
- Design database schemas and handle complex migrations.
- Build and scale APIs with a focus on performance and reliability.
- Work on system design, scalability, monitoring, logging, and production issues.
- Maintain strong engineering standards through code reviews and automated testing.
- Identify and reduce technical debt.
- Contribute to CI/CD and deployment improvements.
- Explore AI-assisted engineering workflows and automation.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decisions.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, and other stakeholders.
Requirements:
- 3-6 years of backend engineering experience.
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, Django, Express, or similar MVC frameworks.
- Strong SQL, relational database, ORM, and schema design experience.
- Good understanding of system design, scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Experience building and scaling APIs and production systems.
- Strong automated testing and code review practices.
- Experience owning technical deliveries or leading engineering initiatives.
- Strong problem-solving, ownership, and communication skills.
- B2B SaaS / product-company experience preferred.
Nice to Have:
- Ruby on Rails experience.
- Technical mentoring experience.
- CI/CD and infrastructure exposure.
- AI-assisted development experience.
- Multi-tenant SaaS experience.