About the role
We're looking for a Staff Backend Engineers who love building fast, scalable and intuitive user interfaces. You'll work closely with product, design and frontend teams to translate ideas into high-quality user experiences that directly impact business outcomes. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys owning features end-to-end, writing clean code and shipping fast in a high-growth environment.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs.
- Translate product requirements into efficient system design and robust backend logic.
- Optimise systems for speed, reliability, scalability, and security.
- Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to enable seamless API integrations.
- Drive code quality, reusability, and adherence to engineering best practices.
- Troubleshoot issues, improve system performance and ensure high availability.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions and sprint planning.
Requirements:
- Strong engineering background with education from Tier I technology schools.
- 8-15 years of experience in backend development.
- Proficiency in building scalable services using Node.js and/or Python; language-agnostic mindset preferred.
- Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and backend architectures.
- Understanding of databases (SQL/NoSQL), data modelling, and query optimisation.
- Experience with system design, performance optimisation, and scalability best practices.
- Familiarity with caching, messaging queues and asynchronous processing is a plus.
- Knowledge of authentication, authorisation, and security best practices.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills.