Staff Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Provide technical guidance across the team and related teams.

• Address high-scope and intricate backend challenges.

• Oversee extensive, cross-functional backend projects.

• Propel modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture.

• Transition the monolithic and legacy backends towards modular, reusable, and independently operated systems.

• Set standards for APIs, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, and maintainability.

• Create patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation.

• Formulate Go service patterns and Kubernetes operational practices; promote Rust adoption where suitable.

• Engage in on-call duties and incident response, serving as a technical escalation resource.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership on roadmap strategies and investment considerations.

• Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers.

• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted and agentic workflows while ensuring quality, security, privacy, and operational safeguards.

⛳️ Requirements

• A proven history of technical leadership across multiple teams or a wide product domain.

• Extensive backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, or platforms.

• Experience in modernizing a monolith or legacy backend architecture in a production environment.

• Familiarity with modular architectures such as bounded contexts, package encapsulation, ports and adapters, service extraction, event-driven boundaries, or similar concepts.

• Strong capability to foster alignment through well-articulated written proposals and decision records.

• Ability to balance customer satisfaction, delivery speed, technical integrity, reliability, and long-term platform investment.

• Experience in mentoring engineers and establishing standards through code reviews, documentation, and practical examples.

• Production experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows.

• Proficiency with Go services and APIs on a large scale.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native operations, encompassing deployment, scaling, observability, rollback, and production readiness.

• Experience with Rust adoption or production responsibility for systems, security, performance, or platform components.

• Knowledge of Ruby/Rails modularization and large-monolith modernization.

• Experience with PostgreSQL scaling, data partitioning, queues, messaging, or distributed systems.

• Background in security-sensitive product or software supply chain engineering.

• Experience across various deployment scenarios including SaaS, single-tenant, self-managed, or air-gapped constraints.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits designed to support your health, financial well-being, and overall wellness.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental Leave.

• Remote-first, asynchronous organizational structure.

• Participation in on-call and incident response activities.