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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Backend Engineer - **Company:** CNS Engineers, Inc. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $221,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Python (Programming Language), Queueing Systems, Memory Leaks, Containerization - **Published:** June 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/backend-engineer-senior/9753456 ## About the Role * You have 5+ years of experience building SaaS products, e-commerce platforms, or similar online systems, with expertise in Python. * You leverage AI development tools to accelerate your work, and exercise good judgment about where they help and where human review is essential * You've designed and versioned public or partner-facing APIs, balancing backward compatibility with the need to evolve them * You have experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and containerized deployments * You embrace experimentation and make decisions based on data and evidence * You've built and maintained event-driven or asynchronous systems (e.g., message queues, background job processing) that handle high transaction volume * You are excited about new technologies, are able to judge the maturity of the latest innovations, and find practical use for them * You've diagnosed and resolved production performance issues - slow queries, memory leaks, or scaling bottlenecks - and put guardrails in place to prevent recurrence * You strive for constant improvement and encourage others to build quality software * You are comfortable with transparency and open lines of communication, both within your team and with external stakeholders * You enjoy being the "glue" between product teams and infrastructure * You are passionate about observability, process improvements, CI/CD, and deployment frequency ## Description Senior Backend Engineer responsible for building, deploying, and monitoring backend applications. Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to design/version APIs, build event-driven/asynchronous systems, improve performance and reliability, and drive CI/CD and observability best practices. Ship high-quality, well-tested features and support platform scalability and maintainability., Are all() of your answers to the above == True? If so, keep reading; this might be the product-building environment you have searched for., As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will help build, deploy and monitor ChowNow's BE applications. You will work closely with other disciplines to build new features with an emphasis on quality. You will work with the team on following best practices and continuously improving the development process. Reports to an Engineering Manager; No Direct Reports This is a remote role based in the United States. Please note: ChowNow is not eligible to employ in every state and the recruiting team will confirm location and eligibility before moving past initial stages. What We Love About You: You put restaurants first. You deeply understand the importance of local restaurants and put them at the center of everything you do. You aim to help them not only survive but thrive. You celebrate diversity. You recognize that diversity and inclusivity matter. You're committed to progress, which means everyone gets the support and resources they need, no matter who they are. You have an ability to listen to other team members' ideas and can thrive in an environment that embraces individuality. Everyone's voice counts. You raise your hand. You consistently go above and beyond what is asked of you. You help your peers accomplish their tasks while also excelling at accomplishing your own. When you have a smart idea, you raise your hand and share it. You keep reaching. You set clear ambitious goals. You don't allow yourself to become complacent with where you're at and what you've done, so you seek out new opportunities and challenges. What Success Looks Like: Within 30 days, you'll… * Progress through our Ramp Camp (ChowNow's New Hire Onboarding Experience) * Learn our business model and how it translates to platform architecture and features. We work closely with the product and it influences how we think about the code. * Master our development patterns and collaborative processes. We work together to make work efficient. * Read (and write) internal documentation and proposals, and test your features and systems. We take responsibility for communication, quality, and operations. * Grasp the basics of the platform architecture. Developers share responsibility for our always available APIs. * Squash a bug or two from your squad's backlog or ship a small feature to production. Within 60 days, you'll… * Have become an expert on your squad's area of the platform and made an impact on it. We celebrate our success by measuring our impact, internally and externally. * Build, launch, and support your first big release on our platform. We ship with iterative agility. * Understand how our systems interoperate and be comfortable navigating the stack and infrastructure. We are all generalists, but we specialize in areas too. * Have worked with others on your squad to contribute to the architecture for a new system, optimization, or feature. We communicate and collaborate on our architecture to achieve security, scalability, and maximum learning. * Look for opportunities to help your squad ship faster. * Learn our business model and how it translates to our systems and services. Within 90 days, you'll… * Build within reliable estimates. We know this takes time, and we strive to be accurate with each other. * Feel comfortable as an expert on your team, teaching others and continuing to learn. We want to learn as much as we teach. * Be an essential part of growing our team by fully participating in the hiring interview process. We share the responsibility to grow our team. * Have suggested or made a process improvement that benefits the productivity of your squad. * Join your squad in end-to-end ownership of a system or component and look for ways to improve and extend it., The Revenue Enablement Program Manager will drive strategies, develop programs, and enhance the performance of Account Managers and Customer Support teams to improve customer outcomes and retention. ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [The Lord of the Memory: The Return of the Leak](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2011-the-lord-of-the-memory-the-return-of-the-leak) - [Green Cloud Computing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/592-green-cloud-computing) - [Designing Reliable Distributed Systems: Failures, Retries & Idempotency](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1963-designing-reliable-distributed-systems-failures-retries-idempotency) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [20 Essential Tools For Backend Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/218-20-essential-tools-for-backend-development)