Staff/principal backend engineer

• Lead the design and evolution of backend services, APIs, and data models.
• Define system architecture for scale, resilience, and observability.
• Mentor engineers in backend fundamentals: data modelling, API design, distributed systems.
• Collaborate with product and frontend engineers to define contracts and integrations.
• Improve developer experience: CI/CD, service templates, and tooling.

Key responsibilities

Architecture

Define service boundaries; pick patterns (modular monolith, microservices); data schema evolution; API versioning.

Systems & Delivery

Build and maintain APIs (REST/GraphQL); manage background jobs; ensure strong observability (logs, metrics, tracing).

Reliability

Capacity planning, incident response, SLOs; design for fault tolerance.

Leadership

Set standards in code quality, documentation, and design; mentor others in backend craftsmanship.

• ~8+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Expertise in at least one modern backend language (Node/TS, Go, Python, etc.).
• Strong with relational databases (Postgres or similar) and data modelling.
• Experience with distributed systems concepts: queues, async jobs, event-driven design.
• Pragmatic engineering: balancing speed and scalability.

This high-growth tech platform is redefining compliance and business identity from the ground up. It helps enterprises accelerate onboarding, automate manual workflows, and reduce friction - turning what used to be a cost-centre into a competitive advantage. Driven by rigorous engineering, elegant design, and high talent density, this remote-first company operates with radical transparency, full ownership and ambitious ethics.