Senior Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and enhance product capabilities while addressing complex backend challenges.

• Shape the technical and product vision of the teams.

• Enhance the quality, reliability, and performance of systems.

• Collaborate across product, frontend, infrastructure, data, and security domains.

• Create and implement moderate to complex backend features with minimal supervision.

• Make practical architectural decisions between modular-monolith code, shared components, and independently operated services.

• Establish backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness.

• Guide and mentor associate and intermediate engineers.

• Eliminate technical obstacles and enhance team delivery practices through code and design reviews.

• Identify and mitigate performance and reliability issues at scale.

• Engage in incident response and serve as a technical owner when appropriate.

• Utilize AI in production engineering tasks, assess its effectiveness, and mentor others on responsible usage.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong expertise in backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning within a complex product or service environment.

• Proficient in contemporary backend programming languages.

• In-depth knowledge of systems programming.

• Experience in designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures.

• Ability to lead by influence and technical expertise.

• Proficient written communication skills in an asynchronous setting.

• Demonstrated experience in building or operating agentic systems in a production environment.

• Background in architecting agentic-system loops, tool usage, and error-handling strategies for reliability at scale.

• Team members are encouraged to integrate AI into their daily tasks.

• Beneficial, though not mandatory, experience with high-throughput distributed systems, concurrency, or profiling.

• Valuable experience with containerized production operations, such as Kubernetes.

• Useful knowledge of database performance, including PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, schema evolution, or partitioning.

• Relevant background in large-scale modular monoliths or event-driven systems.

• Advantageous experience in public technical communication, open-source maintenance, or developer-focused SaaS roles.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits that support your health, financial stability, and overall well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental Leave.

• Remote-first, asynchronous organization.

• Opportunity to experiment with and integrate agentic AI into production engineering workflows.