100% REMOTE - Staff Backend Engineer (Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go, React) - Full Time

Join a fast-growing, product-focused company as a senior contributor helping to build the infrastructure behind large-scale, high-performance data systems. You’ll work on complex backend platforms that process billions of rows of data, surface meaningful insights, and power decision-making for customers.

This is a high-impact, high-ownership role where you’ll contribute to architecture, implementation, and strategy on a modern backend stack with lots of room to innovate.

What you’ll do

• Design and deliver scalable backend services that process and model large datasets efficiently and reliably
• Build extensible internal platforms and tooling (e.g. APIs, data services, internal developer tools)
• Own full systems end-to-end, from concept to architecture to deployment
• Lead key technical initiatives, improving performance, accuracy, and cost-efficiency
• Occasionally contribute to frontend layers to ship full product features
• Work cross-functionally with product, sales, and customer teams to understand needs and deliver technical solutions
• Apply statistical thinking and experimentation to platform decisions (experience with ML or modeling is a plus)

Sample projects

• Optimization engines that act on real-time and historical performance signals
• Data pipelines and deployment infrastructure for statistical and ML models
• Scalable systems for querying and enriching data graphs across billions of rows
• Integration of multiple data sources into unified, production-grade models
• AI-driven internal tooling that simplifies workflows and delivers actionable insights

Tech stack and environment

• Languages: Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go, React (language choice is flexible based on experience)
• Cloud: AWS (extensive usage; prior experience helpful but not required)
• Databases: ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB
• Architecture: Data pipelines, event-driven systems, internal platforms and developer tooling

Client is looking for the best of the best in a backend engineer and they are willing to pay in line with large companies for the right person. Small company that is scaling but in excellent financial shape. Candidates must have experience working with complex, data-heavy backends.

Critical Job Criteria

The position is backend focused but some UI experience is definitely a plus

However, the emphasis should still be on pure backend as many “full-stack” candidates won’t have level of backend experience they are looking for

Looking for someone who is a strong programmer and wants to code. While leadership is a good characteristic they are not in a stage where they need a lot of management or leads. The role will mostly be designing and implementing features with high autonomy and ambiguity.

Candidate should have a solid track record of delivering big features

Candidate needs to be a good communicator.

Candidates must have something notable about their resume/background and stand out in some fashion in order to move forward. This is not simply working with backend systems (which most programmers do) but actually developing and implementing complex systems.

Experience at top tech companies with a decent longevity (> 2 years)

Education from top university in computer science or related field, * 5+ years of professional experience writing production backend code

• Hands-on experience with pipelines, ETL/ELT, event-based systems, and schema design
• Proven ability to build internal tools and services that are extended by other teams
• Experience with system design for scale, performance, reliability, and cost optimization
• Clear and thoughtful communication skills in both async and real-time settings
• Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity; thrives on autonomy and ownership

Bonus: exposure to statistical modeling, ML pipelines, or AWS services

• Your work will directly shape how customers interpret and act on high-volume data
• You’ll be part of a lean team with strong ownership and a bias for action
• You’ll contribute to modern, outcome-driven engineering with measurable impact
• You’ll have the space to prototype, test, and scale ideas into full systems