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# Staff Engineer (Backend) - Platform

- **Company:** AJAIB 495 LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, User Authentication, Continuous Integration, Programming Tools, Disaster Recovery, Fault Tolerance, NoSQL, OAuth, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Redis, Reliability Engineering, Openid Connect, JSON Web Token, Software Engineering, Management of Software Versions, Okta, Backend, Rate Limiting, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Microservices
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pyvxudvukt

## About the Role

* Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
 * Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering, with a proven record of designing and running platform or shared services used by many teams, and leading technical work across teams
 * Languages: Highly proficient in Java, Go or another modern backend language
 * System Design & Architecture: Strong expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, multi-tenant design, reliability engineering, observability and performance optimization
 * Security: Deep knowledge of authentication and authorization (Keycloak / Ory Stack, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, mTLS) and secure system design
 * Data & Messaging: Deep practical experience with Kafka, Redis, and relational and NoSQL databases, including query tuning and data consistency
 * Infrastructure: Experience designing and operating applications on cloud platforms (GCP, AWS) and Kubernetes
 * Mindset: Product mindset toward internal users. Strong communication, with the ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority. Experience in fintech or another regulated environment is a plus

## Description

As a Staff Engineer (Backend) in the Platform team, you set the technical direction for the shared foundations that every Ajaib product runs on: identity, core services, API standards, observability and developer tooling. You treat the platform as a product whose customers are other engineers, solve the hardest cross-team problems, and make engineers across the company stronger. You stay hands-on where it matters most.

 * Define the technical direction and architecture for platform systems that span many teams
 * Lead the design of scalable, secure, multi-tenant services and review critical designs from other teams
 * Set API and contract standards across the company: versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation and documentation
 * Lead the architecture of identity and access: authentication, authorization, token handling and service-to-service security
 * Design for reliability: service level objectives, rate limiting, isolation between consumers, graceful degradation and disaster recovery
 * Build the golden paths that make good engineering the easy path: service templates, shared libraries, CI/CD standards and observability defaults
 * Plan and lead large migrations across many teams, with clear timelines, tooling and support
 * Identify technical risks early, weigh trade-offs and drive decisions that fit business and regulatory needs
 * Lead investigations and root cause analysis for complex production incidents, and drive lasting improvements
 * Partner with Engineering Managers, Product, Security, Infrastructure and Architecture on cross-team initiatives
 * Mentor Senior Engineers and help grow technical leadership across the company
 * Stay hands-on with implementation for critical components and complex problems