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# Backend Engineer - Representation

- **Company:** Atticus, Inc.
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $157,250.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Systems, Google Cloud, Backend, Kubernetes, Front End Software Development, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-backend-engineer-representation-atticus-7894652

## About the Role

Required:

 * 5+ years of experience building production software, including meaningful time at a seed-stage startup or as an early member of a new product team at a later-stage company - with clear evidence of increasing scope and ownership over time
 * Experience on a high-performing product team, working closely with strong PMs and designers to ship user-focused solutions
 * Experience designing and operating reliable, scalable backend systems and APIs, with a high bar for data modeling and architecture
 * Deep user empathy - you think carefully about the people using what you build, not just the technical implementation
 * A track record of mentoring engineers and genuine excitement about helping teammates grow

Bonus / Nice to Have:

 * Experience with Go
 * Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, & Docker
 * Background in industries with complex workflows - legal, healthcare, or financial services
 * Experience building products for consumers or two-sided marketplaces
 * Experience evolving systems as teams and traffic scale
 * Interest in developer experience, internal tooling, or team process improvement

We are strongly committed to building a diverse team. If you're from a background that's underrepresented in tech, we'd love to meet you.

## Description

* Own significant backend systems end-to-end: set and hold a high bar for architecture, design, implementation, and production health.
 * Partner closely with product and design to shape requirements, not just implement them - we trust your intuitions and want you to have opinions
 * You'll bring 0-to-1 product thinking to an area where your work has a tangible impact on our client's wellbeing.
 * Mentor engineers on the team, with particular emphasis on backend patterns
 * Work across the stack as needed, everything from frontend UI work to data systems.


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