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# Staff Software Engineer - Backend New York City, NY

- **Company:** Sigma Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Databases, Continuous Delivery, Distributed Systems, Cloud Services, Web Application Security, SQL Databases, Google Cloud, Backend, Api Design
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/23_FE46F876898A2401DB46FE82F3EB3411

## About the Role

10+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software. Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment. Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work. Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at Sigma. Strong Computer Science fundamentals., Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems. Data model design, and API development experience. SQL query optimization and database internals. Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure). Prior experience working at high growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success.