Staff Backend Engineer

Role Overview

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will lead the technical direction of our Scala + Python data and agent infrastructure. You’ll own long-term architecture across multiple systems and scale both existing and greenfield services to keep our data fresh, our APIs fast, and customer workflows moving.

What You Will Do

Design and build resilient backend services and APIs, oversee critical data pipelines from ingestion to enrichment to delivery, and architect systems for 100x data growth over the next three years.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You might be a fit if you have 8+ years building and operating complex, production backend systems, deep experience with high-throughput, large distributed systems, and strong experience with Scala, Python, or functional / JVM languages.

Requirements

• 8+ years building and operating complex, production backend systems
• Deep experience with high-throughput, large distributed systems
• Strong experience with Scala, Python, or functional / JVM languages
• Comfortable with distributed systems, data modeling, and high-volume pipelines
• History of providing technical coaching and direction to senior engineers
• Experience introducing new technologies and patterns across the team

Benefits

• Top-tier compensation
• Meaningful equity upside
• High autonomy
• Real impact
• Clear ownership from day one
• High-trust, low-ego, and high-talent team