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# Staff Backend Software Engineer

- **Company:** ROCKET SCHOOLS LLC
- **Location:** United, WV, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $280,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Computer Vision, Business Systems, Collaborative Software, Database Models, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, Spatial Data Infrastructures, TypeScript, AWS Cdk, Pulumi, Backend, Agentic-AI, Cloudformation, Apache Kafka, Api Design, Terraform, Golang, Crud
- **Published:** November 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/570cb10e-4687-4ec7-954e-80f609f50a98/staff-backend-software-engineer

## About the Role

* Demonstrated track record of designing, building, and delivering backend systems from zero to one.
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 * Deep technical expertise in API design, database modeling, and complex schema architecture beyond standard CRUD applications.
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 * Strong hands-on experience architecting distributed systems with complex asynchronous workflows and queue-based processing.
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 * 6 to 14 years of backend software engineering experience, with strong evidence of expanding architectural scope and autonomy.
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 * Hands-on experience with modern infrastructure-as-code tooling (such as Pulumi, Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation).
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 * Early-stage or venture-backed startup experience strongly preferred; must demonstrate genuine comfort working autonomously in a lean (~20-person) environment.
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 * Located in the United States with standard working-hour overlap with the US East Coast.
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 * Experience with technologies such as TypeScript, Python, Go, Kafka, Postgres, Temporal, AWS, or Pulumi is an asset.
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 * Exposure to multi-tenant architectures, real-time collaborative document software, or 3D/spatial data structures is a plus.
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## Description

As a Staff Backend Software Engineer, you will step in as the primary technical owner of the backend architecture. This is a fully hands-on individual-contributor position leading system design, database modeling, and infrastructure decisions from zero to one. Rather than maintaining an existing backend service or delivering features inside a pre-built framework, you will design the foundation connecting agentic AI and computer vision pipelines to distributed business systems, real-time collaboration engines, and multi-tenant structures.