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# Senior Backend Engineer

- **Company:** GROWTH FOUNDATION
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Computer Programming, Databases, Continuous Integration, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Software Architecture, Redis, Next.js, TypeScript, WYSIWYG, Snowflake, Backend, Rate Limiting, Sentry, Data Management, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Data Pipelines, Docker
- **Published:** November 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/py9s768lqi

## About the Role

* At least 4 years' experience building and maintaining production-grade backend systems.
 * Strong programming skills and the ability to write clean, maintainable and well-structured code.
 * Experience designing databases, APIs and backend infrastructure.
 * An understanding of high-throughput systems and background job queues.
 * A strong sense of ownership, taking responsibility for code, infrastructure, testing and monitoring.
 * The confidence to make sound technical decisions in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.
 * A genuine interest in developer experience and building tools and systems that make life easier for other engineers.

Desirable Experience

Experience in any of the following would be advantageous:

 * Rate limiting, authentication systems and quota management.
 * Analytics, attribution engineering and event tracking.
 * Data platforms such as dbt and Snowflake.
 * Building WYSIWYG editors.
 * PDF generation, rendering processes and image manipulation.
 * Server-side rendering frameworks such as Next.js or Remix., If you're a hands-on backend engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, building scalable systems and having a real influence on the technology you work with, we'd be interested in hearing from you.

## Description

You'll be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the backend systems that underpin the platform, with a focus on performance, scalability, security and reliability.

Key responsibilities will include:

 * Designing and building robust, scalable backend systems and services.
 * Developing and maintaining APIs and backend architecture.
 * Architecting infrastructure for job processing, analytics and event tracking.
 * Building internal tools to support authentication, rate limiting and quota management.
 * Working with data pipelines and background processing systems.
 * Optimising system performance, security and scalability.
 * Taking ownership of the full engineering lifecycle, including code quality, testing, infrastructure and monitoring.
 * Collaborating closely with product, design and customer experience teams to deliver new features.
 * Identifying opportunities to improve development processes, tooling and technical architecture.

Technical Experience

We're interested in engineers with experience across a combination of the following technologies:

 * Languages: Python, TypeScript
 * Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, SQS, Parameter Store), Docker
 * Databases & Data: PostgreSQL, Redis
 * CI/CD: GitHub Actions
 * Monitoring & Observability: LogFire, Sentry